# Freak the Mighty

**Author:** W. R. Philbrick
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 176
**Genre:** Adventure
**ISBN-13:** `9780439286060`
**ISBN-10:** `0439286069`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/freak-the-mighty
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak with a leg disability because his, birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, When the two meet they become close friends and they figure out that when they are combined they create a powerful force and team

## Themes

- learning disabilities
- people with disabilities
- friendship
- physically handicapped

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1997 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1997 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1997 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1997 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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