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The colossus of roads / Christina Uss.
Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek, nearly homebound by motion sickness, wants to help his family's catering business by unsnarling Los Angeles traffic, but first he must help a Girl Scout troop with an art project.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780823444502 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0823444503
- Physical Description: 199 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. Holiday House. Grades 4-6. Holiday House. |
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Traffic congestion > Fiction. Motion sickness > Fiction. Scouting (Youth activity) > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. Traffic signs and signals > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | J USS C (Text) | 33126024011433 | JFiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | J USS C (Text) | 33126024012100 | JFiction | Available | - |
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Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek, nearly homebound by motion sickness, wants to help his family's catering business by unsnarling Los Angeles traffic, but first he must help a Girl Scout troop with an art project. - Random House, Inc.
From the author of the acclaimed The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle comes a tale of traffic jams, secret plans, and one eleven-year-old boy's determination to save his family's livelihood.
Rick Rusek's stomach has a lot to say. It's got opinions on tasty foods, not-so-tasty foods, and driving in traffic-jammed Los Angeles makes it roil, boil, gurgle, and howl. It's doing the best it can. It never meant to earn its owner the nickname Carsick Rick or make him change schools for fifth grade.
And Rick's stomach isn't the only one dealing with terrible traffic. His family's catering service, Smotch, is teetering on the verge of ruin after a rash of late deliveries and missed appointments. Fortunately, Rick has the solution. Unfortunately, no one wants to listen to a kid.
Absolutely certain that he could fix the constant, endless traffic snarls, Rick hatches a plan. But he'll need help from his unicorn-loving Girl Scout neighbor, a famous street artist, and the best driver in L.A. Together they'll take on the stream of stalled cars--and a secret conspiracy or two, too.
It's going to be tough, but Rick won't give up. If he can successfully move the 330,000 slow-moving cars standing in the way of his family's future, maybe everyone will see that he's not Carsick Rick. He's one of the seven wonders of Los Angeles.
He's the Colossus of Roads.