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"Freak the Mighty"  Read our interview with author Rod Philbrick
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Mighty (excerpt) By Rodman Philbrick  Chapter One: The Whole
Weird World  My name is Maxwell Kane and the thing you should
know about me is this: even though I'm a big dude with a face
like the moon and ears that stick out like radar scoops and
humungous feet like the abdominal snowman, inside I'm a real
weenie. A yellow-bellied sap sucker. A gigantic wuss. A coward.
I'll do just about anything to avoid a fight. I'm scared if I
hit somebody they might stay hurt forever, or worse. And then
they'd haul me off to prison and everybody would say what did
you expect, the boy is a bad apple just like his jailbird
father.  Okay, maybe I am a little weird, but if you really
think about it everybody is weird. That's the truth, and if you
don't believe it then maybe you better listen up while I tell
you about me and the Bookworm and