Thursday, December 5th at 7pm - Marcella Pixley, "Freak"

Please join us on Thursday, December 5th at 7pm, as we welcome Marcella Pixley, reading from the new paperback edition of her Middle Grade novel, Freak.

Marcella Pixley teaches eighth grade Language Arts at the Carlisle Public Schools. Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and Poet Lore, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Pixley has written two young adult novels: Freak and Without Tess. Freak received four starred reviews and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year.

Ms. Pixley lives in an antique farm house in Westford, Massachusetts with her husband and two sons. She is a graduate of Vassar College, University of Tennessee and Bread Loaf School of English.

Event date:

Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Event address:

65 Main Street

01742-2503 Concord

Freak (Paperback)

By Marcella Pixley

$10.99

ISBN: 9781250027429

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Square Fish - September 17th, 2013

*"An expertly—and lovingly—narrated story about girls and bullying . . . Stunning." —Kirkus, starred review

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in memory “clear as pain.” That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow “alien,” bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school "in" crowd. That's the year high school senior Artie Rosenberg, the “hottest guy in the drama club” and, Miriam thinks, her soul mate, comes to live with Miriam's family. And that's the year the popular “watermelon girls” turn up the heat in their cruel harassment of Miriam—ripping her life wide open in shocking, unexpected ways. Teased and taunted in school, Miriam is pushed toward breaking, until, in a gripping climax, she finds the inner strength to prove she's a force to be reckoned with.