Overview
While Nick Gardner's family is falling apart, his best friend, Scooter, is dying from a freak disease. The Scoot's final wish is that Nick and their quirky classmate, Jaycee Amato, deliver a prized first-edition copy of Of Mice and Men to the Scoot's father. There's just one problem: the Scoot's father walked out years ago and hasn't been heard from since. So, guided by Steinbeck's life lessons, and with only the vaguest of plans, Nick and Jaycee set off to find him. Characters you'll want to become friends with and a narrative voice that sparkles with wit make Gae Polisner's The Pull of Gravity a truly original coming-of-age story.
Full Product Details
Author: Gae Polisner
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Imprint: Perfection Learning
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.80cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781627655101
ISBN 10: 1627655107
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 05 February 2013
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
The very sentimentalism of the situation, the quest nature of the plot, and the quirkiness of the characters will appeal to many young readers. -- BCCB What summer reading list is complete without a road-trip novel? Especially one that extols the virtues of reading sad books and contains the sentence: 'Parents are such idiots.' -- Newsday Polisner's first novel begins with a bang and ends with another. . . . There is a great deal to enjoy throughout, and literary kids will surely enjoy a subplot involving John Steinbeck. -- Booklist Characters feel real . . . and the plot zips along, championing strength in adversity. -- School Library Journal [Gae Polisner] is a writer young adult readers will surely want to hear more from. --Examiner.com The very sentimentalism of the situation, the quest nature of the plot, and the quirkiness of the characters will appeal to many young readers. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Although the teens' best laid plans go oft awry, they discover that the force of the universe is with them--or at least friendship, family and romance. Pulls the heart in all the right places. -- Kirkus Reviews Scooter, Nick, and Jaycee are real, and they're funny. I love how they yearn for something beautiful, warm, and true to lift them from the lousy, sad absurdity of their circumstances. And I love the unlikely places where they find it: Yoda. A possibly misguided bus trip. Red wax lips. Real lips. And each other. I love that they find it mostly in each other. --Lynne Rae Perkins, Newbery Medal-winning author of As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth Part love story, part adventure story, funny and serious, The Pull of Gravity is a delightful read. --Francisco X. Stork, author of Marcelo in the Real World Gae Polisner writes with fluidity and grace. The Pull of Gravity will draw you in and keep you thinking long after you've closed the book
Author Information
Gae Polisner is a wife, mother, and family law attorney/mediator by trade, but a writer by calling. The Pull of Gravity is her first novel.
