So, your dad’s a genius, and you have a math learning disability. He thinks you should be an engineer, and you think: “what about ‘math learning disability’ don’t you understand?” And now he wants to pack you off to rural Pennsylvania (isn’t that where that groundhog lives?) to stay with elderly relatives you’ve never met--Poppy and Moo (Moo? Seriously?) while he goes to Romania to teach for six weeks. You’re supposed to help Poppy with an engineering project called the “Artesian Screw” (“good training for an engineer”, Dad says) and in your spare time do the tons of math problems he sends along with you. Not your idea of summer fun. But you go (what choice do you have?), you meet your crazy relatives and their possibly even crazier neighbors, and to your immense surprise your summer turns out not half bad.
That’s 14 year old Mike Frost’s life in a nutshell. You’ll be entertained by his adventures in Do Over, Pennsylvania; maybe you’ll even laugh out loud. And you’ll certainly cheer for him as he learns the absolute value of Mike.


