| Authors: |
W.R. Philbrick
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Books |
| Language: |
English |
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| Year: |
1993 |
| ISBN: |
059047412X 9780590474122 |
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5 out of 5: They loved it |
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More Than the Sum of Their Parts by Virtual Unicorn |
| Two middle school students form the quintessential odd couple. Max has a learning disability, a traumatic past, and is physically huge. His best friend Freak is feisty, phenomenally intelligent, and suffers from a birth defect that makes him unusually tiny. But they make a team that can't be beat and call themselves Freak the Mighty. Together they overcome Max's shyness, school bullies, and an abusive absent father who kidnaps Max. The only thing, in fact, that they cannot overcome is death itself, which must to all men soon or late--in this instance, to one of the two central characters tragically too soon. |
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