Northrop, Michael,

On thin ice / by Michael Northrop. - First edition. - 228 pages ; 22 cm

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.

ISBN: 9781338589399 9780545495905 0545495903 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2018046395

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kyphosis
Fathers and sons
Compulsive gamblers
Conduct of life
Bullying
Friendship

LC Class. No.: PZ7.N8185 / On 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6 Fic