The Electric Kid (An Avon Flare Book)

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Summary: The Electric Kid
Review: Living in the garbage dump was a hard life for Hotwire and Blindboy, but their skillful talents got them through lots of dangers. Hotwire can put back together old machines that were thrown away. Blindboy can hear old machines deep below the garbage. Together they sell those things to make a living. But when a master criminal uses their amazing talents to steal cars, Blindboy and Hotwire find themselves in big trouble. Can they save the day before the city is blown to pieces? Will Hotwire find a family or will she live on the dump forever? I enjoyed reading this book and couldn't wait to find out what happened at the end.

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Summary: Packed with emotion, action, and vivid scenes
Review: The Electric Kid has tremendous appeal to adolescent readers. Every chapter is filled with fast-paced action and suspense. The main characters, two orphans adrift in a chaotic future world, cling stubbornly to their feelings of loyalty and affection for each other while competing to survive in a huge garbage dump. Strong visual images and sensory details bring this dangerous, dirty, colorful distopic society alive to the reader's imagination as the orphans make difficult moral choices, outwit predatory adults, fight for scarce food and water, and seek for a way to live well in a horrible world. The students in my Middle School absolutely love it!