The Absolute Value of Mike
β Scribed by Erskine, Kathryn
- Book ID
- 107193471
- Publisher
- Philomel
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Product Description
Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability, nothing could be more difficult. When his dad sends him to live with distant relatives in rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, Mike figures this is his big chance to buckle down and prove himself. But when he gets there, nothing is what he thought it would be. The project has nothing at all to do with engineering, and he finds himself working alongside his wacky eighty-something- year-old aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide project to adopt a boy from Romania. Mike may not learn anything about engineering, but what he does learn is far more valuable.
About the Author
Kathryn Erskine lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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