Create a bulletin board, display area and/or learning center to develop and enhance reader interest in this novel.

Suggestions:

• Have copies of RULES of the ROAD and other books by Joan Bauer on display for students to look at.
  
  
• Collect shoe boxes, bags, and advertisements. Ask students to bring them in and make a stack or display showing the variety of different kinds and styles of shoes. Some shoe stores will give you huge shoe posters.
  
  
• Create a display of ROAD SIGNS. Draw or find signs such as:
  STOP, YIELD, DETOUR, SLOW, CURVE, MERGE, NO U TURN, etc.
  
  
• Make a display of maps, atlases, Trip-Tiks, and travel planners. Use one good United States map to trace Jenna's travels from Chicago to Dallas. As you read the book, mark her route with colored highlighter pens and put stick pins at each place they stop on their journey. AAA motorclub is a good source of free maps and travel literature. They may even give you one map for each of your students.
  
  
• Secure and bring in copies of the Driver's Training Manual from your state bureau of motor vehicles. Once again, the state office may give you one book for each student. Often these have great road signs and show "rules of the road" that can be compared to themes and events in the novel RULES of the ROAD. Many of your young adult readers will need to study this book soon anyway and interest in this material will be at a peak.
  
  
• Make a display of car models and pictures from newspaper and magazine advertisements. Find product information about Cadillacs. A new GM Cadillac brochure was a big hit in my classroom.
  
  
• Obtain pamphlets and brochures about A. A., Al-Anon, Alzheimer's, and senior care facilities to have available for students to read and explore.
  
  
• Find intergenerational pictures of people doing a variety of jobs.