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Jenna, newly armed with a driver's license, thought she had her summer all worked out--until Mrs. Gladstone, owner of the shoestore chain where Jenna works in Chicago, shows up and asks Jenna to drive her to Texas. A subplot about Jenna's alcoholic father is a little heavy-handed but does not impede the pedal power of this fast and funny tale of one big-boned (and big-hearted) gal's summer of discovery on the road.