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Scrap City (Middle-grade Novels)

by D. S. Thornton

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Fifth-grader Jerome Barnes of Shoney Flats is exploring the town junkyard when he finds a strange mechanical robot-creature named Arkie who is made of a collection of spare parts, but seems remarkably alive--and when Arkie shows him the city that exists beneath the junkyard Jerome realizes that he must find a way to save his friend and the junkyard that the town wants removed.

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Genres: Kids, Tween
DDC/MDS: 173 — Philosophy & psychology Ethics Ethics of family relationships
BISAC: JUV JUVENILE FICTION Action & Adventure General
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Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 4
ASINs: 1

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Published: 2015
Genres: Kids, Tween
DDC/MDS: 173

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