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008 230424s2001 nyu 000 1 eng d
020 _a0743411943
040 _cQCPL
_erda
082 _aFic
100 1 _aBardi, Abby
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe book of Fred
_c/ Abby Bardi
264 1 _aNew York :
_bWashington Square Press,
_c[2001]
300 _a292 pages
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
500 _aIncludes a readers club guide with reading group questions and topics for discussion, as well as an interview with the author.
520 _aRaised 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.
650 _aFundamentalism
_vFiction
650 _aTeenage girls
_vFiction
655 7 _2lcgft
_aHumorous fiction
_910552
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
690 _aFiction