Freaks : Alive, on the Inside! (Paperback)

from extrajoker

first line: "When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life." Narrator-protagonist Abel, the son of an armless woman and legless man, is an anatomically unremarkable teen living and working among "very special...

from Velvet-Moonlight

Great story of a boy who is borne to a circus where everyone has an extraordinary ability and he remains the only normal one of the bunch. He leaves to seek his own fortune, fallowing nothing but the voice of a beautiful Egyptian dancer in his dreams. Beautifully written tale of 'freaks' in the e...

from lilibrarian

Abel, the teenaged son of two sideshow freaks, leaves home looking for his own life, and finds himself working with the freak show of a traveling circus.

from ohioyalibrarian

I loved this book!!!!!!!! It's about a boy who is born to a mother with no arms and a father with no legs who live in a "freak community" where visitors pay to come see them. The boy feels abnormal in this environment because he is normal. So, he leaves to seek his fortune and what a fortune he f...

from ohioyalibrarian

I loved this book!!!!!!!! It's about a boy who is born to a mother with no arms and a father with no legs who live in a "freak community" where visitors pay to come see them. The boy feels abnormal in this environment because he is normal. So, he leaves to seek his fortune and what a fortune he f...