Erskine, Kathryn.
The absolute value of Mike / Kathryn Erskine. - New York : Philomel Books, c2011. - 247 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher's Weekly, April 2011 New York Times, June 2011 Horn Book, October 2011 Kirkus Review, May 2011 Library Media Connection, November 2011
Mike, a fourteen-year-old boy with a math learning disability, is sent to rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, and while his plans to impress his mathematician father fall flat when Mike discovers the project has nothing to do with engineering, he learns much more valuable lessons while working with his eccentric, elderly aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide effort to adopt a Romanian orphan.
5.5. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.
0399255052
2010013333
Father-son relationship--Fiction.
Self-acceptance--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Business enterprises--Fiction.
Pennsylvania--Fiction.
PZ7.E7388 / Ab 2011
[Fic]
The absolute value of Mike / Kathryn Erskine. - New York : Philomel Books, c2011. - 247 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher's Weekly, April 2011 New York Times, June 2011 Horn Book, October 2011 Kirkus Review, May 2011 Library Media Connection, November 2011
Mike, a fourteen-year-old boy with a math learning disability, is sent to rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, and while his plans to impress his mathematician father fall flat when Mike discovers the project has nothing to do with engineering, he learns much more valuable lessons while working with his eccentric, elderly aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide effort to adopt a Romanian orphan.
5.5. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.
0399255052
2010013333
Father-son relationship--Fiction.
Self-acceptance--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Business enterprises--Fiction.
Pennsylvania--Fiction.
PZ7.E7388 / Ab 2011
[Fic]