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Arroyo by Chip Jacobs
4.0
This was such an interesting story! I love dual timeline books and this amazing story takes place in 1913 and 1993 and the center of the story is the Colorado Street Bridge or known as Suicide Bridge in Pasadena California.
Nick Chance is is an aspiring solar Lamp inventor and he has a clairvoyant dog Royo! We follow him as he works at Clawston Ostrich Farm, he rides Mrs Grover Cleveland whose an ostrich. Soon his showmanship creates a following and the sick children adore him. With his riding he meets Reginald Plant. When an incident has him leave the farm and he ends up working as a construction worker on the Colorado Street Bridge. With this job he feels with finally open up an opportunity for him for to use his true passion, which is Solar Powered Lamps and maybe they will use them on the bridge. The story focuses on the Bridge and we see twists and the challenges of the people who work on the bridge and the story focuses on the bridge all they way up to its 80th anniversary. I loved how the author added actual real people to the story as characters. There were a few times I had to look up certain words. I would describe this book a bit quirky and different!! Four stars
Nick Chance is is an aspiring solar Lamp inventor and he has a clairvoyant dog Royo! We follow him as he works at Clawston Ostrich Farm, he rides Mrs Grover Cleveland whose an ostrich. Soon his showmanship creates a following and the sick children adore him. With his riding he meets Reginald Plant. When an incident has him leave the farm and he ends up working as a construction worker on the Colorado Street Bridge. With this job he feels with finally open up an opportunity for him for to use his true passion, which is Solar Powered Lamps and maybe they will use them on the bridge. The story focuses on the Bridge and we see twists and the challenges of the people who work on the bridge and the story focuses on the bridge all they way up to its 80th anniversary. I loved how the author added actual real people to the story as characters. There were a few times I had to look up certain words. I would describe this book a bit quirky and different!! Four stars