Seek

By Paul Fleischman

Book Overview

Assigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to listen back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812649001
• ISBN13: 9780812649000
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cricket Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

A unique & enthusiastically recommended audiobook experience

Featuring a full cast providing an authentic "theater of the mind" listening experience, Paul Fleischman's Seek is a complete and unabridged, 2 hour and 42 minute audiobook performance on two cassettes. Robert Radkovitz is a highschool senior assigned to write his autobiography. But what Rob creates is a kind of "sound portrait" of his life as he remembers it, including his mother's singing, his grandmother's mysteries, Mexican soap operas, Edgar Allan Poe, poetry, and the voice of his absent father from a single tape from one of his old radio shows. Told in a collage of voices, Seek describes Rob's search for his father through a labyrinth of airwaves and along the way encountering psychic readers, baseball announcers, pirate DJ.s. Seek is a unique and enthusiastically recommended audiobook experience, and would make a welcome and popular addition to any school or community library audiobook collection.

An Orginal novel!

In Seek, High School teenager Rob is assigned to write an autobiography based on his life so far. Rob reflects back on his life not with writing descriptions and dialog but with sounds bites. He remembers his grandmother telling him stories, his grandfather teaching him history, his mother watching Spanish soap operas with him, he and his friends creating a controversial and popular newspaper in school and most importantly his continuous love for the radio. He remembers listening the radio, searching the many channels in hope of one day hearing his father's voice come over for once, the father who abandoned him and his mother before birth because he didn't want a child. Seek is a really great book. This novel/play is a familiar story but told in an unfamiliar way, instead of descriptions it's told through simple sound bites. If you're in the mood for an honest, touching, and often humorous story about a boy's search for his father and growing up in the world this is defiantly for you. It's a rarity you see a YA book with such heart.

Seek is Interesting, Unusual, and SO hard to put down!

This book is really cool. It is about a boy who searches for his father. It's really different because it tells the story entirely through quotes of the boy, Rob, along with his family, friends, and some tv and radio shows. This book is really good and I'm recommending it to all of my friends!

Best YA Book and Best Play I've Read in Years!

I received the book yesterday, read it in 3 hours, and have decided (unexpectedly) to try to have my class perform this as a play. It is simply wonderful. The characters are believable and endearing. The plot is hopeful, honest, and brilliantly executed. Without manipulating your feelings, you find yourself laughing, crying, and thinking about your own life. Paul Fleischman...I have now elevated you to my favorite author. Everyone else, please, please, please be sure to read this wonderful book. It will change you.

a very good book

If you are looking for a book with a plot that takes you by the hand and leads you through the whole book without so much as a bump in the road, this book is not for you.But if you are looking for something different, look no farther. This book is written in a collage of voices ranging from radio broadcasts to mexican soap operas. At first this mubble jumble of voices is very iscouraging because it is almost impossible to figure out what is happening abd ultimately what the book is about. But after you get past the beginning and the plot becomes more clear, you can begin to piece together all the voices and fin their unique part in the bigger picture. This is a very good book that has everything.At some parts it might be very sad or serious, while at others it was extremely funny. Since I have as of yet told you nothing about the plot, I will describe the plot in one sentence.The book is about a boys search for his father. I will tell you no more because the rest of the plot is for you to figure out. And perhaps it is the fact that you have to figure out the plot yourself that makes this such a great book.