This book is written by Joan Boer, who has written many teen fiction
books such as Squashed. This book starts out at a shoe store in Chicago.
Where there is a teen girl quickly going from customer to customer trying to
give them nothing but excellence service and that is what she is doing. Her
name is Jenna Boller and she is sixteen years old. She has one sister by the
name of Faith. Her parents are split up and she lives with her mother. This
is because her mother kicks her father out of her house because he is
always coming home drunk, he's an alcoholic who wont admit it. They have
tried to send him to AA meetings, but he wouldn't go because he said they
were only for losers. As you will see if you decide to read this book he will
cause a great deal of problems for Jenna. That is where the first problem
While at work one day her store gets a surprised visit from the owner
of the shoe store. The name of the shoe store is Gladstone Shoes, and Mrs.
Gladstone own a chain of them that go all through out the country. Just as
she arrived so did Jenna's father, drunk.
"Jenna girl" he stuttered into the store, through the door.
Jenna quickly left what she was doing took him away from the store
and then told him he couldn't come around there again. Then she left him
leaning up against the side of a bridge. When she got back her boss was
waiting for her. He had important news, Mrs. Gladstone wanted her to be
her chauffeur for the day. So she went to Mrs. Galdstone's house and got in
the car and drove her to another one of the Gladstone Shoe stores.
At the end of the day suddenly out of know where Mrs. Gladstone said
When asked what this meant her response was that she was going to
be the chauffeur for Mrs. Gladstone for the rest of the summer. This
meant that, she was going to be driving Mrs. Gladstone around the country
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