# The Absolute Value of Mike

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- Book: [The Absolute Value of Mike](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-erskine/the-absolute-value-of-mike) ([The Absolute Value of Mike.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-erskine/the-absolute-value-of-mike.md))
- Authors: [Kathryn Erskine](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-erskine)
- Publisher: puffin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4242-101-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the author of Mockingbird, a National Book Award winner! Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability,...