Chapters 4, 5 and 6

• Read on.
  
• React to what you read by anticipating what Jenna will do.
  

Respond to what you read by answering the following in your ROAD JOURNAL:

1. What decisions or difficulties does Jenna have driving the car? What word for "huge" does she use to describe the car? (top p. 34).
   
2. What does Mrs. Gladstone want to hire Jenna to do?
   
3. Where does Mrs. Gladstone want to go?
   
4. Look again at the front cover of the book and predict what Jenna will do.
   
5. Explain what role her mother has in Jenna leaving town.
   
6. Why does the author use "words in italics" in chapter 5
   (pp. 38 - 39)?
   
7. What was Opal's reaction to Jenna's job offer?
   
8. What effect did the phone calls from her father have on Jenna's decision?
   
9. List several things Jenna is worried about as she plans to leave on her trip to Texas.
   
10. What does Jenna do to help her Grandmother with her disease?
    

GO DEEPER: Make a chart in your journal to explore two "real life issues" that Jenna is having to face: