Title: The pull of gravity
Description: When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men."
Subjects: Grief, Death, Juvenile fiction, Family problems, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Families, Children's fiction, Death, fiction, Grief, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, family life, general
Places: Rochester (N.Y.)
People: John Steinbeck (1902-1968)