Northrop, Michael,

On thin ice / by Michael Northrop. - First edition. - pages cm

The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but Ked is a builder, and using the school's Maker Space he intends to build his life back, and maybe make a few real friends, and save his father while he is at it.

9780545495905 (hardcover)

2018046395


Kyphosis--Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
Compulsive gamblers--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Bullying--Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Kyphosis--Fiction.
Spine--Abnormalities--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Gambling--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Bullies and bullying--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.


Maine--Juvenile fiction.
Maine--Fiction.

PZ7.N8185 / On 2019

813.6 Fic