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    Default FREAKS: Alive on the Inside!

    I just finished a novel titled Freaks: Alive on the Inside, by Annette Curtis Klause. It was recommended to me by an eighth grade girl, but it is not what I would regard as a novel for most teenagers, but for mature readers. (Like us)

    It is a fantasy novel set in an historical setting. Abel Dandy's parents are performers in an 1899 freak show. Abel is the only normal person in that setting, and his first kiss is from Phoebe the dog-faced girl. He wonders what it would be like to kiss someone without getting fur up his nose, but the normal people in town won't have anything to do with him because he is part of the show. He is an excellent knife thrower, but he can't perform in the show because he has no physical abnormality.

    So, he runs off to make his fortune and join the circus. But one of the clowns takes a dislike to him and throws him off the circus train. He takes a job as janitor in a bawdy house, helped by his friend Apollo, the dog-faced boy, sister of Phoebe, who followed him. Then they are both sold to a traveling freak show where abnormal children are stolen, purchased, abused, and exhibited.

    How Abel falls in love with a 3,000 year old mummy who sought him as her reincarnated lover, frees the children, defeats Dr. Mink, the evil owner of the traveling freak show, and finds his rightful place in the world is a great page-turner story. If you are not afraid to read a novel markedted as "young adult," I recommend this one to you.

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    Default Re: FREAKS: Alive on the Inside!

    Mike...ever read "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn? Vaguely similar theme, but not for kids.
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    I'll have a look for that at the library. thanks.

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