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Reader reviewed by Bookworm9

The first few pages of "Seek" had me scratching my head, but after that I found it hard to put down. After you get used to the "soud bite" format, it's easy to enjoy the story of Rob, a high school senior who's spent most of his life searching for his DJ father, who left before Rob was born. The radio is his form of searching, but when Rob angrily decides that there's no longer any point in trying to find a man who seemingly doesn't care about him, he moves on to other interests. In the end, he must find a way to return to the radio while stepping out of his father's shadow.

The only problems I had with "Seek" were that I couldn't figure out the gender of Rob's best friend Zad (who is referred to as both a "her" and a "him" at varying points in the book) and that Fleischman chose to make the statement that baseball announcers "should be male" in his notes for a readers' theater production. Other than that, this was a really fun read and a unique way of writing.