I am doing my book review on Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. It is a realistic fiction that is 64% geared for boys and the rest girls. The copyright date is 1993. It also has 149 pages that are waiting to be turned.
The plot is about two boys named Max and Kevin met for the first time when they were both in day care. Max was an angry kid called Kicker because he kicked everyone, while Kevin called himself Robot Man because of the leg braces he had to wear. Then Kevin stopped coming to day care, and the boys lost contact until they saw one another briefly in third grade.
The summer before eighth grade, Kevin and his mother moved in next door to Max’s grandparents’ house, where he lived in the basement. The boys meet again when Max helps Kevin get his mechanical bird from the tree where it is stuck. The two boys became Freak the Mighty.
It was going as good as the Cardinals are right now until rumors spread about how Kevin’s dad Killer Kane escapes out of prison. What will Kevin do? What will Max do? Read this extremely, awesome, extrordinary, fun Newberry Award winning book.
Kirkus Reviews says that “This book is one that everyone at the middle school level should be forced to read.”
“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you” from The Last Book in the Universe
Rodman Philbrick also wrote The Young Man in the Sea.
Recommended by Graham Vaughan
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