Who Do You Ask When You Don't Have the Answers? What's a girl to do when caught between a rock and a hard place? The 'hard place' is losing the use of her beloved car, and the 'rock' is her immovable dad. In order to regain driving privileges, Kim Peterson's dad talks her into writing an advice column for teens in his newspaper. Kim reluctantly agrees and writes under a pen name. But as she reads letters from peers and friends, she becomes keenly aware of two things: (1) Some kids have it way wo