The book of Fred

Bardi, Abby

The book of Fred / Abby Bardi - 292 pages

Includes a readers club guide with reading group questions and topics for discussion, as well as an interview with the author.

Raised in a fundamentalist sect, 15-year-old Mary Fred Anderson has never watched TV, been to a supermarket, or read anything beyond the inscrutable dogma of the prophet Fred. When her parents are jailed, Mary Fred is put into foster care in a Washington, D.C. suburb. As she struggles to understand the modern world, Mary Fred begins to positively influence her troubled housemates.

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Fundamentalism--Fiction
Teenage girls--Fiction


Humorous fiction

Fic