Operation Gratitude ~ Paracord Bracelets II

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Patron Book Review ~ I, Emma Freke

I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth Atkinson
Published: 2010
Genre: Family, friendship, realistic fiction

Description:
"I, Emma Freke, am not a freak. Or maybe I am. I just don't know."

What's in a name? I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emma - the only "normal" member of her quirky family. Her flighty, New Age mom seems to barely have time for a daughter, especially one who annoyingly spoils her mom's youthful façade. Emma's well-meaning grandpa is clueless. And her only friends are the local librarian and a precocious 10-year old adopted by the two old ladies next door.

Smart, shy, and nearly six feet tall, Emma struggles to fit in at school, so she jumps at the opportunity to "home school" until that too turns into another of mom's half-baked ideas.

The real crisis comes when she gets an invitation to The Freke Family Reunion, and her fellow Frekes aren't at all what she expects. While Emma desperately tries to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps it's better to be her own "freak" than someone else's Freke.
Review by patron, Lindsey: 



About you gotta be who you are. Don't pretend to be somebody you aren't. Pretty good overall.

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Operation Gratitude ~ Paracord Bracelets

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• Dream Things True by Marie Marquardt
• Self-Help by Miranda Sings
• Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis (Available 10/6)
• The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld
• Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
• Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
• The Apprentices (Apothecary bk #2) by Maile Meloy
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Available 10/6)
• The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas