Ruth Lehrer
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Being Fishkill von Ruth Lehrer
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.When you grow up poor and neglected, it's easy to mistrust, or give up. That's twelve year old Fishkill's reality, but when she is presented with an opportunity to make a friend, it's not only scary, but she can sense something liberating behind the opportunity. This is a gritty, but still beautiful coming of age story.
teen/adult fiction (child with absent parents, friendship and complex social dynamics, incidental LGBTQ characters)
Carmel Fishkill, named for the highway exit sign she was born near, has been fending for herself her whole life, decides to remake herself at 12 years old and become a person who is tougher than nails and who doesn't cry, registering under her middle name when she enters middle school, where she is able to take food from other kids to prevent herself from going hungry.
Normally a book about a 12-going-on-13-year-old girl would be a middlegrade novel, but what Fishkill goes through is pretty intense. Terrific characters and a heartwrenching plot make this one of my favorites for 2017.… (mehr)
Carmel Fishkill, named for the highway exit sign she was born near, has been fending for herself her whole life, decides to remake herself at 12 years old and become a person who is tougher than nails and who doesn't cry, registering under her middle name when she enters middle school, where she is able to take food from other kids to prevent herself from going hungry.
Normally a book about a 12-going-on-13-year-old girl would be a middlegrade novel, but what Fishkill goes through is pretty intense. Terrific characters and a heartwrenching plot make this one of my favorites for 2017.… (mehr)
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.This young adult novel is written in a very captivating first person narration of a middle school aged female who was born into an extremely dysfunctional family, trying to simply survive life. A single mother and her daughter, also a classmate of the main character, take the narrator in after her a series of tragic events occur. Unfortunately the tragic events don't stop there, but the story is a great read about the courage and strength of the human spirit.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Received this copy as an Library Thing Early Review copy. I enjoyed it very much. A bit sad and dramatic but still a good read.
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