This is the story of a small town’s pair of siblings, older brother Jake, who takes care of his younger sister, Peewee. Jake has an honest automobile service business in a shack just by the home he shares with Peewee. Peewee helps in the garage, too and she has very peculiar ideas of how she wants to live her life. Jake's and Pewee's neighbors "take care of the two "kids" in a very quiet way. After a real hurricane hits the small town in Indiana, many things begin to change. The town needs a new librarian to replace their departed former one. Four young city girls take up the librarian's position, their arrival changes some of the people in this small town. The other big event that happens is that the town is to hold the area’s first automobile race. Jake wants to enter with his homemade vehicle, he and Peewee have much to deal with, business competitors who service cars in a very tricky way and an injury!
I enjoyed the humor that Richard Peck brings into the story, the characters grow on you and the events keep you going to find out who and how the race was won!
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