INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Erskine, Kathryn

The Absolute Value of Mike

(2) 4-6 To satisfy his mathematician father, Mike is spending the summer with relatives in Pennsylvania to work on a town engineering project--or so he thinks. Instead, he finds the community focused on raising $40,000 to help one of their own adopt a Romanian orphan. Despite many laugh-out-loud moments, the book's heart is essentially serious, as Mike comes to realize his own strengths.

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