Freak the Mighty
Max. Freak. Best Friends. Forever.
by Rodman Philbrick
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At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Now in paperback, this is the widely acclaimed novel about two boys--a slow learner too large for his age and a tiny, crippled genius--who pair up to create one formidable human force known as "Freak the Mighty". Includes comprehensive teaching guide. Young Adult. (This is a school distribution ed. for teaching purposes.)
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Children, Children's, Teen, Teenager, Middle school, YA, Young adult, Coming of age, Juvenile, Literature, Stories, Books, Fiction, Novel, Paperback, Chapter book, Family, Friends, Friendship, Secrets, Learning, Disability, Disabilities, Bully, Bullying, Bullies, Adventure, Triumph, Acceptance, Death, Realistic, Sad, Feel-Good, Joy, Happiness, Happy, Personality, Memorable, Luminous, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Learning disabilities, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fictionTimes
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Freak the Mighty
September 3, 2004, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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0746062532 9780746062531
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Freak the Mighty: Max. Freak. Best Friends. Forever.
1993, Scholastic Inc.
Paperback
in English
- First Scholastic Printing ed. #2 (see notes)
0590474138 9780590474139
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*Printed in the U.S.A. **This ISBN10 - 0590474138, ed. #2, with the *Scholastic logo in bottom center, rather than bottom left, is distributed, for teaching purposes, through school market.
*1996 Award: (Middle School) Winner of California Young Reader Medal
1997 Award: (Young Adult) Winner of Golden Sower Award*
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What a wonderful, joyful, heartbreaking, loving, feel-good book. Highly recommend it for any person who has ever felt left out, unaccepted and alone, any person or people who feels superior to others, and tend to bully or be-little, or anyone who just wants to understand the differences between all people. You may even see a piece of your childhood self in one of these two very different, but accepting of each other, individuals; heroes. Loved the story!
Meet Maxwell Kane, narrator of Freak the Mighty. He's a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Haunted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. But when a new kid moves in next door, Max's life changes forever. The two outcasts form the "normal" world team up to become "Freak the Mighty".
Like knights of old, they defend the weak, right every wrong - and solve the mystery of Max's past - proving once and for all that courage comes in all sizes.
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