On thin ice

Titre
On thin ice

Michael, Northrop

Sommaire
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but Ked is a builder, and using the school's Maker Space he intends to build his life back, and maybe make a few real friends, and save his father while he is at it.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2019

Description matérielle
228 pages ; 22 cm

Terme de vedette-matière
Kyphosis -- Fiction.
 
Spine -- Abnormalities -- Fiction.
 
Father-son relationship -- Fiction.
 
Gambling -- Fiction.
 
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
 
Bullies -- Fiction.
 
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
 
Friendship -- Fiction.

Terme géographique
Maine -- Fiction.

Résumé
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but Ked is a builder, and using the school's Maker Space he intends to build his life back, and maybe make a few real friends, and save his father while he is at it.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780545495905
 
9781338589399

Informations de publication
New York : Scholastic Press, 2019.
 
©2019


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