This was a good book! The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine is a mix of realistic fiction, and adventure. It was good to break up the chapters into little stories. This book has a slow start but gets better and better throughout the book.
This book is about a boy named Mike. Mike is an almost normal boy. His mother died when he was young and his dad is pretty much dead. Mike’s dad is at least a couple hundred pounds overweight. His breakfast, lunch, and dinner usually consists of about five snickers bars. Despite his extreme weight, Mike’s dad is an ultra genius. He has to go to Romania for a big project, so Mike has to go to his grandparent’s house. This is anything but music to his ears. This means six weeks with total morons.
He knows it is going to be rough when he gets off the plane and his grandma doesn’t even recognize him. Moo names all of her belongings, for example, Tyrone(her car) and Doug the clock. Mike was also assigned a project for when he got there. Mike and Poppy were supposed to be working on a project called the artisan screw. However, Poppy still wasn’t moving at all. The deadline was coming up fast and still nothing had happened so Mike decided to take matters into his own hands. Mike went into Poppy’s workshop and tried to work but nothing worked. Then, Mike met Past. Past is probably the nicest character in the book. Ever since his wife(Natalie) died he has not been living in his house. He decides to live on a park bench. However, he has a lot of food because of all the citizen’s generosity. Mike’s life is going from place to place because of the project and the adoption. The town is trying to save up $40,000 to adopt a boy named Misha from Romania. The reason it costs so much: Romania is shutting down it’s adoption borders meaning that the town only has three weeks. Throughout the book Mike and the people of Do Over are leading a lot of projects to raise money. However, I cannot share the ending.
I recommend this book to people who like realistic fiction, adventure, cliffhangers, and a little bit of math. I can’t wait to hear other people’s thoughts from reading this book. This was a great book and I hope other people will like it to!
Book review by Graham
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