Memory Boy: A Novel

Weaver, Will

3.58

854 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 0060288124 ISBN 13: 9780060288129

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

After a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in the beginning of the new millennium, the world falls into a state of panic and violence, so Miles Newell and his family decide to leave the only home they ever knew in the city to start life anew in the wilderness.

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"Miles is a likeable, skateboarding wiseacre, full of fear and bravado, and always secretly hoping for his father's approval."--School Library Journal

Miles is a likeable, skateboarding wiseacre, full of fear and bravado, and always secretly hoping for his father s approval. --School Library Journal"

About the Author:

Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.