The Absolute Value of Mike
| Year of Publication |
2011
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
256 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Philomel Books
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
One summer Mike, 14 and motherless, is sent away by his math-mastermind father to live with Poppy and Moo, octogenarian kin who live in a troubled, rural town. Nearly everybody and everything in this novel is odd and serious, yet comic. “Mike ends up coordinating a community drive to raise $40,000 for the adoption of a Romanian orphan . . . A satisfying story of family, friendship and small-town cooperation in a 21st-century world,” wrote Kirkus Review.
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| Author Biography |
Kathryn Erskine (1959- ) practiced law before becoming a writer. Her novel Mockingbird won the 2010 National Book Award. She lives in Virginia.
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| Time |
2010s
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