When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a elderly pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons. Includes a sixteen-page reader's guide.
year: 2003, 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fathers and sons, fiction, wealth, prisoners, family life, california, father-son relationship, california, fiction, families
Editions
Simmons, Michael
Roaring Brook Press (2003)
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
Schools: 7
Simmons, Michael
Delacorte Press (2005)
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a elderly pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons. Includes a sixteen-page reader's guide.
Schools: 0
Simmons, Michael
Brett Gerson, raised in a world of privilege, learns some valuable life lessons when he is forced by his father's arrest for insider trading to take a job as an assistant to a seventy-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood.
Schools: 0