The Pluto Project

by Melissa Glenn Haber

Alan Green has perfected his cool façade. He intends to survive the indignities of eighth grade and his father’s remarriage with as little emotion as possible. But even cynics need entertainment.Alan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525477217
• ISBN13: 9780525477211
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A good book, but it's not what you think

Anyone who buys this book expecting a big kid-sleuth-stumbling-on-murder-conspiracy story is going to be very disappointed. This is a psychological drama about an adolescent dealing with the death of his mother, and though there is an "investigation," it's only a game the kid gets involved in, not a real murder mystery. That being said, there's a lot of great writing and humor in this book. The main character's relationships with his friends and family are especially fascinating, and Ms. Haber does a great job of showing us how grief can short-circuit those relationships. In fact, that's the true value of this book: showing young readers how grief, unacknowledged, poisons everything, including love, and isolates the griever. Ms. Haber has written a very original and moving book. Read it for its warmth and wit and insight. But don't expect spies, kidnappings, or chase scenes.