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McAllister, Cameron

The Tin Snail

274 pp. | Delacorte | January, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-553-53638-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-553-53640-9 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-53639-3
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Sam Usher. In this adventure tale based on the true story of the concept of the French Citroën Deux Chevaux in the late 1930s, a boy, his father, and their village manage to keep the car's design secret from the Nazis. The story conveys the satisfactions of auto engineering and construction but suffers from repetition and clumsy characterization. Energetic black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis

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