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Simmons, Michael

Pool Boy

164 pp. | Roaring Brook | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7613-1885-2 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-7613-2924-2 $$22.90
(4) YA After his father is jailed for insider trading, fifteen-year-old Brett, accustomed to a life of luxury, gets a summer job cleaning pools with an eccentric old man. The one-note story lacks a dramatic arc, but Brett's snotty first-person voice contains just enough glimmerings of self-knowledge that his eventual emotional turnaround, though limited, is convincing.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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