01179cam a2200277 4500 134725578 TxAuBib 20110601120000.0 100426s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010013333 9780399255052 0399255052 TxAuBib Erskine, Kathryn. The absolute value of Mike / Kathryn Erskine. New York : Philomel Books, 2011. 247 p. ; 22 cm. Memorial for John Lozier by the Munn Family. Fourteen-year-old 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. Fathers and sons Juvenile fiction. Self acceptance Juvenile fiction. Individuality Juvenile fiction. Eccentrics and eccentricities Juvenile fiction. Business enterprises Juvenile fiction. Pennsylvania Juvenile fiction.