Seek
by Paul Fleischman

Name: Seek
Brand: Paul Fleischman
SKU: 9781583423820
Rating: 3.61 (1 reviews)

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Readers appreciate the unique narrative style and emotional depth of the play. Many enjoy the innovative approach to storytelling, highlighting its collage of voices and the protagonist's heartfelt journey. However, some find the initial confusion in the plot challenging to navigate.

Unique narrative styleEmotional depthInnovative storytellingInitial confusion in plot

Synopsis

Rob Radkovitz, a high-school senior, is assigned to write his autobiography.

He decides to "listen" back on his life and hears his grandmother's mystery novels, Mexican soap operas, shortwave announcers, his multilingual mother, and his rabble-rousing grandfather.

Most cherished of all, he hears the voice of his absent DJ father, from a single tape of one of his radio shows.

We follow Rob's search for his father from grammar school on, a man he's heard but never seen.

It's a quest pursued not through San Francisco's streets but through the labyrinth of the airwaves, amid the chatter of baseball announcers, late-night DJs, and the thrillingly distant world of shortwave.

Psychic readers, pirate DJs, friends, and teachers join Rob's family in an aural collage that's as joyfully comic as it is compelling.

Seek is a hymn to the mystery of voices and the crucible of family.

It can be easily staged as readers theatre or as a radio broadcast.

Based on Paul Fleischman's book which, among its accolades, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

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Approximate running time: 90 minutes.