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skyeblue said: Elizabeth Atkinson’s new book for middle readers, I, EMMA FREKE, is a charming story about smart, shy, nearly six-feet-tall, 12-year-old Emma, who feels like a misfit at school and at home.
It doesn’t help that her name said aloud sounds like Am a Freak.
Emma spends her time minding her mother’s bead store in a New England seaport, more comfortable with customers than with her peers. Her flighty single mom, Donatella, is too busy dating to make dinner and her grandpa is clueless. Her only friends are the local librarian and a precocious 10-year-old adopted by the two “Grey Moms” next door.
Over night, Emma’s world changes when she receives an invitation to the Freke Family Reunion in the wilds of Wisconsin — the other side of her family that she’s never met. But her fellow Frekes aren’t at all what she expects. Although she looks like them, she still may not fit in. While Emma struggles to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps it’s better to be her own freak than someone else’s Freke.
This is a wonderful book for middle readers -- you'll fall in love with the characters!
tags: I recommend, family, novel, adventure, middle reader |
