Describes the environmental impact of automobiles, looks at new technologies that can reduce car pollution, and explains how oil use can be replaced by cleaner power sources
Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He's got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?) Uh-oh . . . CAR TROUBLE.
I was so obsessed by the dead President's limo that. MOST. DEADLY. DRIVE-BY. IN. THE. WORLD. THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR DRIVING MACHINES. MOST DEADLY DRIVE-BY IN THE WORLD ...
This is a coming of age story, but it is also so much more than that.”—Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Nicky Flynn is coming-of-age in 1970s Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year ...
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Car Trouble traces the fascinating social history of a 70-year love affair with the automobile that is beginning to go sour. Gridlock and traffic snarls are becoming facts of American...
She is the author of "Triple Trouble," the first book in the Cassidy Callahan Adventure series. Kelly and her husband have two grown children and a crazy Shetland sheepdog named Pippin.
Car Trouble
He knows how to let his clients believe their own versions of how bad brakes, bad weather or bad luck caused their car trouble, while at the same time saving the real stories for later.
Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer "nerd" Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there.
Sixteen year old Brinn Johnson was about to face a life changing experience. She never would have imagined that a little car accident could change her life in such a big way.
Set mainly in Southern California during the recession of 1992, J. Ladd Zorn Jr.'s Car Trouble is a character-driven odyssey for anyone longing for page-turning action and dark humor to combat the insanity of the rat race.
Originally published: Australia: Nelson ITP, 1999.
Car Trouble: Leveled Reader 6pk Gold (Levels 21-22)