Junkyard Princess: A Memoirella

The year is 1983. It's a time of both mullets and glam, Bowie and the Smiths, and for twelve-year-old Robyn: rusty old vehicles, terrifying dogs, and grease-stained car guys. Robyn's dad has just uprooted the family from the clean streets of Orange County and plopped them in the middle of the California High Desert to fulfill his lifelong dream: to own a junkyard.

At first, the new business is a lark, but soon Robyn is hawking auto parts amidst a motley assortment of fugitives and refugees....