News from Style Weekly - Richmond,VA,USA:
by Mary Mullins
[...] For a heartwarming read, nothing satisfies quite so much as a story where the underdog triumphs against overwhelming odds. In “Electric Dreams: One Unlikely Team of Kids and the Race to Build the Car of the Future” (Carroll & Graf Publishers, $24), Richmond writer Caroline Kettlewell relates a winner.
Kettlewell’s underdog is a team of Northampton County, N.C., high school students competing to build an electric car against far-better-funded and -equipped schools. Stumbling blocks and setbacks abound in this real-life tale that makes the ending all the more thrilling.
... In spite of some unfulfilled promises, “Electric Dreams” delivers a charming story that will keep you rooting for the students and their humble retrofitted Escort, “Shocker.”
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