Being Fishkill

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.

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ISBN: 9780763684426
Physical Description: print
regular print
312 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

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Poverty -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
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Young adult fiction.

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Castlegar Public Library	Y FIC LEH (Text)	35146002069003	Young Adult Fiction	Volume hold	Available	-
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