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its a book about an albino girl who lives with an abusive woman. She escapes the house after she is caught with a boy. The woman tells the girl that the boy knocked her up after this albino girl gets her period. I think the story continues where she ends up like in a side show circus and thats how she makes a living. Anyone know this book or who the author may be?

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    The Likes of Me by Randall Beth Platt

    While most teens feel like a "freak" at some point during their adolescence, author Randall Beth Platt has taken that emotion to the extreme and created a character whose strangeness isn't just a feeling, but a physical fact. Fourteen-year-old Cordelia wears her freakiness all over her face--she's a half-Caucasian, half-Chinese albino. "I used to wonder if it was because my mother was yellow with black hair, and my father was white with red hair, that I came out albino--without any color at all..." It is 1918, and Cordy's family lives in an isolated logging camp in the Pacific Northwest where most of the lumberjacks are used to her odd coloring. But when handsome Squirl joins the crew, he is fascinated by Cordy, and she by him. When Squirl is fired and leaves for Seattle, Cordy, completely smitten, runs away to join him. Once there, she learns that her appearance can turn a profit, and, after much cajoling by Squirl, joins "Dr. Ridenour's Carnival of Mystic Delights." But even as she enjoys fame and fortune, Cordy is troubled by Squirl's waning affection, and learns a shocking secret about her family that could change her life forever.

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