Petey (ISBN 0786804262) is a children's book by Ben Mikaelsen, published in 2000. It has two parts: Part I is the story of the life of Petey, a child with severe cerebral palsy whose parents commit him to a state asylum in the 1920s. In part II, set in the present, a troubled eighth-grader, Trevor, meets the now 70-year-old Petey at a nursing home.