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Pool Boy

By Michael Simmons

By Michael Simmons

By Michael Simmons
Read by Chad Lowe

By Michael Simmons
Read by Chad Lowe

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Paperback $16.00

May 10, 2005 | ISBN 9780385731966 | Young Adult

Audiobook Download $12.95

Mar 23, 2004 | 219 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About Pool Boy

    Fifteen-year-old Brett Gerson is a real-life S.R.K. (spoiled rich kid)–the guy you love to hate. Yep, Brett’s pretty much got life in the bag–until his dad is jailed for insider trading, and the family money swirls down the drain.

    Brett wishes things could go back to the way they were–until some dirty swimming pools change everything.

    About Pool Boy

    Fifteen-year-old Brett Gerson is the kind of kid you love to hate. He’s smug, arrogant, rude, and filthy rich. When his dad is jailed for insider trading, his family loses everything and Brett has to face life without the mansion, the Mercedes, and his beloved $5,000 stereo. But his attitude begins to change when he’s forced to take a summer job assisting Alfie Moore, the seventy-year old guy who used to clean his swimming pool . . .

    Told in the first person and set in a fictional California town, POOL BOY marks the debut of a gifted young writer, Michael Simmons, and of one of the most engaging and infuriating anti-heroes since Holden Caulfield.

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    About Michael Simmons

    Michael Simmons is the author of Pool Boy, Finding Lubchenko, Vandal, and Alien Feast. He lives in New York City.

    About Michael Simmons

    Michael Simmons is the author of Pool Boy, Finding Lubchenko, Vandal, and Alien Feast. He lives in New York City.

    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Delacorte Press
    May 10, 2005 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780385731966

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Listening Library
    Mar 23, 2004 | 219 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780807223246

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    Praise

    “With surprisingly sharp insight for a first novel, Simmons doesn’t bat an eyelash in his forcing his arrogantly smug antihero to combat a truckload of issues.”–School Library Journal, Starred

    A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year

    A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

    Awards

    YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults SELECTION 2005

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