Pool Boy

Name: Pool Boy
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Simmons
ISBN: 9780807223246

Author: Michael Simmons

Narrator: Chad Lowe

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 03/23/2004

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Careers, Occupations, Internships, Social Themes, Family

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Haylee on October 08, 2012

This is a great book for someone who wants to read just for fun! It gets the point across while still telling the story of a 16 year old with a jail dad, who went from 5000 dollar stereos to bologna sandwiches for a meal. When all his money goes to waste he has to get a job that he thought he would......more

Goodreads review by Maria on October 02, 2021

Life is difficult and most of us do terrible things to each other. But that doesn't remove the good things we do for each other. This was not a great start to the month. Pool Boy is about Brett, a fifteen-year old whose luxury lifestyle is disrupted when his father is imprisoned for insider tradi......more

Goodreads review by Mr Francy on March 27, 2020

VIDEO REVIEW: ([URL not allowed]). Rating: 2/5 Stars. CONS 1) This is a character-driven story and I’m MUCH more of a PLOT driven reader. I was highly annoyed by the fact that every-single-time I really started enjoying the plot, Michael Simmons jumps from it and spends a long-time discussin......more

Goodreads review by Ava on April 09, 2018

This book is about a boy who lived rich until one day the police came to his house. His dad was in trouble and was getting arrested when he tried to run away. The cops caught him and it was so stupid because then he was in even more trouble. Now his family is known all around town and they don't hav......more

Quotes

“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