In the Driver's Seat: A Girl's Guide to Her First Car - Softcover

Stalder, Erika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980073243 ISBN 13: 9780980073249

Publisher: Zest Books, 2009

Synopsis

Women make up more than half of the drivers on the road, but most girls still don’t know the difference between a lug nut and a dipstick. This engaging, comprehensive, and entertaining guide teaches girls to get intimate with their four-wheeled friends. Includes:
Buying and insuring a Car
Fixing minor problems
Learning what’s under the hood
Choosing a mechanic
Surviving emergency situations
Styling your ride
PLUS: Fun sidebars and statistics about women behind the wheel!

About this title

About the Author

Erika Stalder is a San Francisco-based writer who has contributed to Wired, Missbehave, Planet, and The Journal of Life Sciences. She worked with the International Museum of Women to produce the Imagining Ourselves anthology and wrote the De column for ABC Family’s The Secret Life of The American Teenager website.

Reviews

Acquiring a driver’s license is a rite of passage, but there’s more to driving than learning the rules of the road. This nifty hot-pink-and-black guide to buying, understanding, maintaining, and styling a first car will be a real help to new drivers, and it is the size and shape of an owner’s manual, so it will store nicely in the glove compartment. The tips range from the very basic (how to release the hood latch and prop it open) to diagrams and descriptions of brake rotors and calipers, as well as directions for checking and replacing air filters. Charts of symptoms indicating possible problems and what to do about them are useful. For issues that are beyond a teen driver’s capabilities, there is advice for dealing with an auto mechanic. Fun comes in the last chapter, with tips for keeping the car looking nice and adding a girl’s best friend: accessories! Interspersed throughout the easy-to-read layout are fun facts (did you know that a high-school girl invented the device that turns off your signal after you turn?) and lists of driving songs and movies, all centered around girl power. A great gift for a new female driver or a library purchase to supplement the high-school auto-shop curriculum. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Dobrez

Edition details

• Publisher: Zest Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980073243
• ISBN 13: 9780980073249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128