The absolute value of Mike
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The absolute value of Mike
AUTHOR:
Erskine, Kathryn
ISBN:
9780142421017
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York [etc.] : Puffin Books, 2012
PHYSICAL_DESC:
247, 9 p. ; 20 cm
ABSTRACT:
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan
SUBJECT:
| Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
| Self-acceptance -- Fiction |
| Individuality -- Fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan