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Author Lehrer, Ruth, author.

Title Being Fishkill / Ruth Lehrer.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  TEEN LEH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN FIC LEHR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Teen  REALISTIC YA LEHRER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 312 pages ; 22 cm
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 Family problems -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Poverty -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Abandoned children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Alternative Family.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse.
Genre/Form Young adult fiction.
ISBN 9780763684426 (hardcover)
0763684422 (hardcover)
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