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    If You Find This

    Written by Matthew Baker

    Narrated by Bryan Kennedy

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    About this audiobook

    Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E.L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes's quest to prove his grandfather's treasure is real.
    Nicholas is a math and music genius with no friends and a huge problem: His father has lost his job, and they'll have to sell their house, which holds the only memory Nicholas has of his younger brother. Just in time, Nicholas's senile grandfather arrives, filled with tales of priceless treasure he has hidden somewhere in town--but where?
    With the help of misfit classmates, two grandfathers, a ghosthouse, hidden messages, séances, and an uncanny mind for numbers, Nicholas stages a nursing home breakout, tangles with high schoolers in smugglers' tunnels, and gets swept up in a duel with the biggest bullies in the neighborhood. Will it be enough to find the treasure and save his house?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9781478955955
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    If You Find This
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    Matthew Baker

    Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature and Conjunctions, and in anthologies including Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the MacDowell Colony, among many others, he has an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review. Born in Michigan, he currently lives in New York City.

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      Nicholas’s family is plagued with problems and in danger of foreclosing on their house, so when his grandfather with dementia is released from prison and talks about buried heirlooms, Nicholas is determined to find them. The charm of the book from a mathematical perspective is its language. Nicholas is obsessed with prime numbers: “Big numbers only happen on years that you’re a prime” he says ”When I was two, our dog got hit by a truck. When I was three, our kitchen caught on fire. When I was five, I broke my leg…When I was seven my mom got pregnant and my brother was born and died. When I turned eleven, my dad got fired from the factory” (p. 4). A mixture of adventure and mystery, this book steeped with math language would make a great read aloud. Have the students note the metaphorical use of math terms and appreciate the protagonist’s love for math: “Do you speak binary?’ (p. 169. To engender cross-curricular connections, English language arts teachers could share this title and work with the math teacher exploring the math concepts. Additionally, the title would be a good outside reading or summer reading for a math class.