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Summary Of Michael Northrop's 'Trapped'
Trapped, by Michael Northrop, is a slower style survival book about seven peoples journey to try to survive a blizzard while trapped inside of a school for several days. The book starts of with our main character, Scotty, at school. Everyone went to school the day the storm started, the news had talked about an awful storm but because they were from a small town near New England, the kids thought of it as an overhyped snow storm. Scotty, the stories main character, planned to go to practice after school even though he knew it was going to be cancelled because of the storm. Scottys friends, Pete and Jason, talk him into staying after school to help build Jason's Flammenwerfer, the name he gave to his go-kart, in the schools shop. School gets
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