If the authors purpose in "how to prepare for a road trip" is to inform students about how to prepare for a road trip, what is most likely her secondary purpose?
a. to persuade her readers that travel can be a rewarding experience.
b. to persuade parents to give their students money for a road trip.
c. to persuade students to avoid getting a job as long as possible.
d. to inquire about how many students would be interested in traveling across the country.

To persuade her readers that travel can be a rewarding experience.

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the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

you can infer that to folke dude was spying for allied nations