Freak

By Marcella Fleischman Pixley

Subjects: Minnesota, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Identity, Middle schools, Bullies, Bullying, Schools, fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Sisters, Juvenile fiction, Self-acceptance, fiction, Identity (Psychology), Schools

Description: Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.