书名：Freak The Mighty  小天才与傻大个
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1000
作者：Rodman Philbrick
出版社名称：Scholastic
出版时间：1993
语种：英文
ISBN：9780439286060
商品尺寸：13.3 x 1.1x 19.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：170 （以实物为准）
Freak the Mighty《小天才与傻大个》是美国儿童作家罗德曼·菲尔布里克的儿童小说处女作，1993年出版后立即斩获许多奖项，并在1998年改编成卖座电影。作品主题深刻，具有很强的启迪性。

推荐理由：
1.获奖无数，美国图书馆协会推荐青少年读物、亚利桑那州推荐青少年读物、加利福尼亚州推荐青少年读物、美国图书馆协会必读书目等；
2.一个克服缺陷、自卑和失落的传奇故事，告诉我们：勇气和身高无关，和年龄无关；

3.本书为Scholastic出版的版本，附加AFTER WORDS（后记板块），内含作者简介、采访内容、写作点津等；
4.书中的英语原汁原味、文字优美、句式不难理解，适合青少年做进阶阅读；
5.轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
Freak the Mightyis a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick. Published in 1993, it was followed by the novelMax the Mightyin 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, very slow, but kind-hearted boy, and Kevin Avery, nicknamed “Freak”, who is physically handicapped but very intelligent. Kevin is diagnosed with Morquio syndrome.
The novel was adapted for the screen under the title The Mighty by Charles Leavitt; the film was shot in Toronto, Canada and Cincinnati, Ohio, and directed by Peter Chelsom, and released in 1998.

一个是先天残疾、拄着金属架，却有爱因斯坦大脑的小天才；一个是高大笨拙，有学习障碍，却心地善良的傻大个儿。
原本两个不幸的小孩遇见了彼此，弗里克的机智加上麦克斯的长腿，组成“怪怪罗汉二人组”——有熊的力量，钢铁般的意志，和无边无际的想象力。他们坚强起来，互相帮助，成为所向无敌的推荐搭档。
Freak the Mighttells the heart-wrenching story of two special boys who pair up to form a unique and empowering friendship. Two boys, one is a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant while another one is a tiny Einstein in leg braces forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. 

罗德曼·菲尔布里克，1951年生于美国波士顿，是美国著名的多才多艺又多产的儿童文学作家。他从小学六年级就开始写故事，至今已创作了许多脍炙人口的佳作，荣获了包括纽伯瑞儿童文学奖、爱伦·坡推理小说奖在内的许多重量级奖项。他一直希望自己所撰写的故事能够给予孩子们反败为胜的力量，帮助他们更快更好地成长为有能量、有梦想的人。其代表作为《宇宙后一本书》。
Rodman Philbrick(born 1951) is an American writer of novels for adults and children who has won the prestigiousAmerican Library Association Best Book for Young AdultsandQuick Pick Awards. Rodman Philbrick and his wife Lynn Harnett collaborated on scary books for young readers, includingThe House on Cherry Street,The Werewolf Chronicles, andVisitors, three trilogies published by Scholastic, Inc. Philbrick has also written using the pen names W. R. Philbrick, William R. Dantz, and Chris Jordan. 

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that’s the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking. Except I had a way of saying things with my first and my feet even before we became Freak the Mighty, slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.

Called me Kicker for a time—this was day care, the year Gram and Grim took me over—and I had a thing about booting anyone who dared to touch me. Because they were always trying to throw a hug on me, like it was a medicine I needed.

Gram and Grim, bless their pointed little heads, they’re my mother’s people, her parents, and they figured whoa! better put this little critters his own age, maybe it will improve his temper.