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Pool Boy

By: Michael Simmons
Narrated by: Chad Lowe
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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 70-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.

©2003 Michael Simmons (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Death & Dying Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Literature & Fiction

Critic Reviews

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

“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

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