# Being Fishkill - Hardcover

by **Ruth Lehrer** (Author)

**Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be -- until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start.**

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. Poet Ruth Lehrer's young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains "family." And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.

### Author Biography

**Ruth Lehrer** is a poet, author, and American Sign Language interpreter. She lives in the woods of western Massachusetts.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** November 14, 2017

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Being Fishkill

**Interest Level:** Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up

**Reading Level:** 5

**Point Value:** 12

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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