On thin ice by Northrop, Michael 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 681488 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 3.7 6-8 Lexile: 640

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Kyphosis - Fiction Spine - Abnormalities - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Gambling - Fiction Conduct of life - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Maine - Fiction

Summary: The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but Ked is a builder, and using the school's Maker Space he intends to build his life back, and maybe make a few real friends, and save his father while he is at it.