The Electric Kid

The Electric Kid has tremendous appeal to adolescent readers. Every chapter is filled with fast-paced action and suspense. The main characters, two orphans adrift in a chaotic future world, cling stubbornly to their feelings of loyalty and affection for each other while competing to survive in a huge garbage dump. Strong visual images and sensory details bring this dangerous, dirty, colorful distopic society alive to the reader's imagination as the orphans make difficult moral choices, outwit predatory adults, fight for scarce food and water, and seek for a way to live well in a horrible world. The students in my Middle School absolutely love it!