TY - BOOK AU - Bardi,Abby TI - The book of Fred SN - 0743411943 U1 - Fic PY - 2001///] CY - New York PB - Washington Square Press KW - Fundamentalism KW - Fiction KW - Teenage girls KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction N1 - Includes a readers club guide with reading group questions and topics for discussion, as well as an interview with the author N2 - 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 ER -