Covers can be deceptive can't they? From the cover I imagined a light hearted, short romp - almost cartoonish. That is not what I got. Don't get my wrong - in the end I enjoyed it but it was 352 pages and the was arson, theft, heartbreak, and more. Not what I was expecting.
While Jerome is at the town junkyard with his father and uncle he discovers Arkie - a Scrapper - a living, sentient being made of - well - junk. Arkie takes Jerome underground to his city but along the way they discover oil. Oil and water don't mix. Jerome soon becomes embroiled in a race to save Smithytown and an evil developer bent on taking the land at any cost. When Jerome learns of this developer's past it gets personal.
So I did like it in the end but it took over 1/2 the book for me to really get into it. Not sure my students would stick with it that long.
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