| Author |
Lehrer, Ruth, author.
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| Publication |
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
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| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
312 pages ; 22 cm |
| Call # |
FIC LEHRER |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
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Abandoned children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre |
Young adult fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780763684426 |
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0763684422 |
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