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Car Trouble is a novel by Jeanne DuPrau published in 2005 about a man named Duff Pringle who travels across the country for a dream job. Plot summary. Duff Pringle is heading across the country, aiming for his new job in technology in California's Silicon Valley. His used Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down.
Uh-oh... CAR TROUBLE. Duff's Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What's he supposed to do? He's promised his new boss he'll be there by Monday. But he's also promised himself that he'll make this journey by car, so he can really see the country.
1 sty 2005 · Car Trouble was about a young man named Duff who had to travel to California by car to start a new job. On the way there, he faced his car breaking down, someone stealing his wallet, being in a convicts house, and meeting new friends.
21 kwi 2009 · Car Trouble. Jeanne DuPrau. Harper Collins, Apr 21, 2009 - Juvenile Fiction - 100 pages. When Duff's Ford Escort breaks down after barely a hundred miles, he uses his laptop and some quick...
Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer "nerd" Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there.
Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He's got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy.
28 sty 2016 · His $625 car doesn't even make it to the state line. He quickly finds new wheels by checking Internet chatboards and discovering a "drivers wanted" ad, but against his mother's explicit warning, he picks up a hitchhiker, who everyone but Duff will immediately recognize as Trouble.
