Being Fishkill / Ruth Lehrer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 312 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780763684426
- 0763684422
- Poverty -- United States -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- United States -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Alternative Family
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse
- [Fic]
- PZ
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Young Adult Collection | Fiction | YA FIC Lehre (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 15993 |
Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill's fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck's mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill's unstable mother and by unfathomable tragedy.
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