· Freak is heartbreakingly funny, heartbreakingly spot-on, and heartbreaking. If you've ever been on the outside—and you have—Miriam Fisher is your new best friend.” —Chris Crutcher, author of The Sledding Hill “Pixley writes with well-crafted intensity of a girl in an agony of perplexed exclusionBrand: Square Fish. pages. $ ISBN 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. Read "Freak A Novel" by Marcella Pixley available from Rakuten Kobo. For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR.
"Freak" by Marcella Pixley. Teen librarian's review: Seventh grader Miriam Fisher is the "freak" of the book's title. She's a poetry-writing, flat-chested, mostly friendless middle school girl who is routinely mocked, teased, and tormented by her classmates. Miriam thinks her life is about to change. Miriam Fisher is different. She likes to read the dictionary, write in her diary that she named Clyde, and recite Shakespeare. She's an outsider at her middle school and for the most part doesn't care that she has only one good friend. If Carlisle middle school teacher Marcella Pixley could tell her students just one thing all year, she says it would be this: "Being made to feel freakish is a universal experience, especially in adolescence. Every human being has had the experience of being an outsider. I think young people often see.
Freak by Marcella Pixley. Miriam has always been an outsider. Having an eclectic artistic mother and hippy environmentalist, professor father, along with her "creative," artistic upbringing, always set Miriam apart from the others in her small town. It used to be bearable when Miriam had her best friend, her sister Deborah, for support. Ms. Pixley has written four acclaimed young adult novels: Freak, Without Tess, Ready To Fall. and most recently, Trowbridge Road. Freak received four starred reviews and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, Without Tess was a Junior Library Guild Selection, Ready to Fall was named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. Trowbridge Road was a Junior Library Guild Selection. "Freak," written by a middle-school teacher, Marcella Pixley, tells the story of Miriam Fisher, a protagonist we can all identify with, as she deals with the "new world" otherwise known as middle school.
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