The Absolute Value of Mike

I feel like this book needed one more pass through the revision process. The potential was really there. I loved the kooky people of Do Over and their community spirit, and how Mike found his "absolute value" through his project with them. However, a lot of it just rang false and dead horses were be......more

Mike Frost is 14 years old, and ever since his mother died, he has been almost solely responsible for the care of his father, a brilliant math & engineering professor, who's fantastic with numbers, and terrible at managing life. Mike's own dyscalculia (a math disability) proves a sticking point betw......more

My son and I are reading this together......more

I'm a huge fan of books with quirky odd characters as you may or may not know, and this book definitely delivers. The story is set in a small PA town. Mike moves in with his elderly (octogenerian) aunt and uncle when his socially awkward overweight father goes to Romania for the summer. They are not......more

[URL not allowed] This was a delightful quirky story with so many fun characters. Sometimes it felt a bit 'much' but if you get in the spirit of it, it really was so cute.......more