Another Cargo Largo bargain bin find: Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau.
"Recent high-school grad and computer-whiz Duff Pringle is on a cross-country road trip, headed from home in Richmond, Virginia, to a California job designing the next-generation something or other for a company that modestly calls itself "Incredibility, Inc." Alas, real life doesn't run as smoothly as a computer program, and, in short order, Duff's battered old Ford breaks down, he meets a fast-talking hitchhiker in a wild shirt, loses his wallet in a scary biker restaurant, finds himself stranded in St. Louis, and, well, that's just the tip of an iceberg of troubles."
I picked this up because it promised of interesting characters, and I wasn't disappointed. This was an easy read, and at times thought-provoking, with simple imagery and a predictable plot. But it was fun, fast, wrapped up nicely. Nothing outstanding, but still a good time.
Three out of five stars.
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