num_pages: 48
description: Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge. With his horibly scarred face, people avoid him. Except when Samantha Sanders finds a dead body in the swamp, and then another, she knows that the Weirdo is the only one who can help her.
language: English
title: Penguin Readers Level 2: "The Weirdo"
titlecomplete: Penguin Readers Level 2: "The Weirdo" (Penguin Readers)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Horror, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 692
places: North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Young Adult, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult
publisher: Penguin Longman Publishing