Trackers Book Report

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Being tracked or followed can be very terrifying, especially when you are hiding from the government. After reading Trackers by Patrick Carman, the phrase "you can't trust your own shadow," comes to mind because this book will make you want to your surroundings to make sure you aren't being followed.

This book starts off with a boy named Adam and his dad working in an electronic store where it is constantly filled with customers. Adam's dad decided to give him a small room in the back of the store, for anything he wanted. As he grew up and started to go to school he realized all the time he spent inventing and creating things in the room he could have been making friends and socializing. He spent a couple of months alone at school, then he

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