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Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start.
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. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.
The price of "Being Fishkill (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics in Castleton is USD $17.99.
The publisher of "Being Fishkill (Hardcover Book)" is Candlewick Press.
The genres of "Being Fishkill (Hardcover Book)" are Young Adult Fiction - Family - Alternative Family, Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see Social Themes - Sexual Abuse), and Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Poverty & Homelessness.
"Being Fishkill (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Being Fishkill (Hardcover Book)" is Ruth Lehrer.