Although they are father and son, John Baker, Jr. and John Baker III are really strangers. His dad left four years ago, a Navy captain fighting in the European theater. Now that World War II is nearly over, his father returns only to bury his wife—young John’s mother.
John begs to stay with his grandparents, but his father packs him up and ships him off to a military boarding school on the coast of Maine. Coping with grief and a drastically different
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environment, John doesn’t fit in. A true fish out of the water, this landlocked Kansas kid gets motion sick just by looking at the rolling ocean waves!
But he does make a friend. The school’s loser, Early Auden is weird and brilliant at the same time. Although the term “autistic savant” hasn’t been coined yet, that is what this quirky math genius is. Constantly sorting by patterns and sequences, Pi is his passion. To Early, Pi is more
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