On thin ice / by Michael Northrop.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780545495905
- ISBN: 0545495903
- Physical Description: 228 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 640L Lexile Decoding demand: 92 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 89 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 8 503864. |
Search for related items by subject
Available copies
- 15 of 15 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Cass County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | J NOR 2019 (Text) | 0002205647692 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | J NOR 2019 (Text) | 0002205734169 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
On Thin Ice
Click an element below to view details:
Summary
On Thin Ice
New York Times bestselling author Michael Northrop captures the middle-school experience -- from the hurt to the hope -- in this powerful story of creativity in the face of cruelty. If I did something risky now, something big -- it's almost like it wouldn't even be my fault. Almost like it might even work. Ked Eakins is about to lose everything.He's just discovered that his dad has gambled away their rent money. They're going to get kicked out of their home.But Ked is determined to fight back. He hatches a plan to save their apartment by rebuilding a vintage minibike in his school's maker space, which he'll sell for a profit.Still, the plan is a gamble of his own: Going to maker space forces Ked into the path of a school bully, who torments him about his progressive spinal condition.Can Ked -- with the help of some unlikely new friends âââââââ-- find a way to fix the bike and save his family from going under before it's too late? New York Times bestselling author Michael Northrop has written a powerful story a boy who âââââââ-- against all odds âââââââ-- decides to bet on himself and create something new from broken pieces.