Full name: Freak: A Novel

Author: Marcella Pixley Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult, Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250027429 9780374324537 125002742X 0374324530

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her memory "clear as pain." That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow "alien," bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school in-crowd. That's the year high school senior Artie Rosenberg, the "hottest guy in the drama club" and, Miriam thinks, her soul mate, comes to live with Miriam's family. And that's the year the popular "watermelon girls" turn up the heat in their cruel harassment of Miriam--ripping her life wide open in shocking, unexpected ways. Teased and taunted in school, Miriam is pushed toward breaking, until, in a gripping climax, she finds the inner strength to prove she's a force to be reckoned with. This riveting first novel introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine, an outsider who dares to confront the rigid conformity of junior high, and in the process manages not only to save herself but to inspire and transform others. Similar books: Ready to Fall by Marcella Pixley Turtles All the Way Down by John Green They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Hate List by Jennifer Brown On the Come Up by Angie Thomas With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Far from the Tree by Robin Benway Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss A List of Cages by Robin Roe Dear Martin by Nic Stone The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow Mosquitoland by David Arnold