When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men.".
year: 2011, 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: steinbeck, john, 1902-1968, of mice and men, fiction, death, fiction, bereavement, father-son relationship, rochester (n.y.), fiction, dysfunctional families, juvenile fiction, grief, fathers and sons, family problems, juvenile fiction
Editions
Polisner, Gae
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux (2011)
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men.".
Schools: 6
Polisner, Gae
Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux (2013)
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men.".
Schools: 2