Being Fishkill
By: Ruth Lehrer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780763684426
Subjects: Family problems; Families; Poverty; Juvenile fiction; Abandoned children; Friendship; Fiction
Description: 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.