(63) Duck Boy
Title: Duck Boy Publisher: Biting Duck Press 294 pages Genre: Sci fi, YA This title is due to be released on October 20, 2012 . I received an electronic ARC of this book through netgalley.com Synopsis: Steve is a 14 year old boy whose mom disappears. The police are called in and conclude that she has left the family – run away. Everything falls apart for him after that. School is a disaster--he's failing his classes, and ever since an ill-fated attempt to save a bird from a frozen pond, bullies call him "Duck Boy." During the first Christmas since his mother’s disappearance, Steve’s dad has to travel for work, just to keep his job, and Steve is forced to stay with his Great Aunt Shannon. Aunt Shannon introduces Steve to alchemy, and shows him that alchemy may have caused his mother's disappearance. Then his great aunt disappears while she is experimenting. Steve begins his own experiments, and finds his philosophers stone, and through an accident dis...