TY - BOOK AU - Erskine,Kathryn TI - The absolute value of Mike SN - 9780142421017 (pbk.) : AV - PZ7.E7388 Ab 2012 U1 - [Fic] 23 PY - 2012///, c2011 CY - New York PB - Puffin Books KW - Father-son relationship KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Self-acceptance KW - Individuality KW - Eccentrics and eccentricities KW - Business enterprises KW - Pennsylvania N1 - Originally published: New York : Philomel Books, c2011 N2 - Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan ER -