Fabulous story. I love the mix between believable and the fantastical.

The fact that the main character lost his mother will allow middle grade readers who have also experienced loss to feel connected to the protagonist. This is a very good thing. Too many book's use a nuclear family as their main subjects. This shows that family can be different and still be okay.

The fact that they are living above a city full of robots\scrap part people is genius.

This book needs to get into the HANDS of more kids ages 8-14.

I rate SCRAP CITY as 5 out of 5 Stars

Very interesting book for teen and younger readers. Very fun read. Great story with great characters.

My thoughts as I read:

6.67% Oddly enough, I would probably have fun in a junkyard like this, exploring for unusual things or something.
19.13% What is the big freakout about oil?!
44.35% What is Willy's secret? Does he age? his strength? Is he crazy? Surprising level of potential depth here.
65.22% I do hope the old topsider is okay! and now the oil and water makes more sense
80.29% Oh, yikes! Did the pacing for this story just speed up!