“I just limped through sophomore year” (6). At Gladstone’s, she feels successful, helpful, and needed. She says people look to her instead of away. When Jenna was a sophomore at high school, she gained 17.5 pounds, was demoted in the basketball team, dropped off the honor roll, and was bullied. This confidence does not extend outside the shoe store. She exudes confidence on the shop floor and never doubts she will end up with a happy, satisfied customer. When the company president, Madeline Gladstone, asks Jenna to drive her. Jenna loves her job, and she knows she is good at it. Jenna has a holiday job in a shoe shop and finds that she can sell anybody anything. The Christopher Award was given to both Hope was Here andClose to Famous, which also received the Schneider Family Book Award. She has ways for dealing with tricky situations, such as a “breath-holding contest” for fussy children (2) She gives difficult kids a stopwatch and the promise of cool laces for the one who holds their breath the longest. Joan Bauer is the author of thirteen books for young readers.She received a Newbery Honor Medal for Hope Was Here, and the L.A. She describes herself as a “shoe professional.” Jenna knows how to connect with customers, making each one feel special, regardless of how busy the store is. Rules of the Road opens with 16-year-old Jenna Boller skillfully using the sliding ladder at Gladstone’s shoe store in Chicago to retrieve boxes of shoes for her customers.
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