For my reading assignment I read “Car Trouble” by Jeanne Duprau. The story takes place in many cities in the United States. Some are real places like Richmond, Virginia, St. Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles, California. The book also has some fictional towns like Sunville, New Mexico, a town built completely off of solar power and other natural resources. There are many more real and fake cities throughout the story, but the ones mentioned are the most written about and most important to the story.
The story’s time period is never mentioned but it is believably in present time, due to the use of computers and cell phones and other modern-day technology.
This story has many characters with various personalities that keep the story interesting. It gives the book a couple of different things to think about at once. The main character is Duff Pringle, a twenty-ish-year-old computer genius who lives in Virginia and is set on his way to get a computer programming job......
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