Being Fishkill

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.

subjects: Family problems,  Families,  Poverty,  Juvenile fiction,  Abandoned children,  Friendship,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Abandoned children, fiction,  Poverty, fiction,  United states, fiction,  Family problems -- Fiction,  Friendship -- Fiction,  Poverty -- United States -- Juvenile fiction,  Abandoned children -- United States -- Juvenile fiction,  Families -- Juvenile fiction,  Friendship -- Juvenile fiction

Places: United States