Kidnapping in the South Seas: Being a Narrative of a Three Months’ Cruise of H.M. Ship Rosario (1871)

I, Emma Freke, am not a freak. Or maybe I am. I just dont know.
What’s in a name? I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emma?the only normal member of her quirky family. Her flighty, New Age mom seems to barely have time for a daughter, especially one who annoyingly spoils her mom’s youthful faade. Emma’s well-meaning grandpa is clueless. And her only friends are the local librarian and a precocious 10-year old adopted by the two old ladies next door.
Smart, shy, and nearly six feet tall, Emma struggles to fit in at school, so she jumps at the opportunity to home school until that too turns into another of mom’s half-baked ideas.
The real crisis comes when she gets an invitation to The Freke Family Reunion, and her fellow Frekes aren’t at all what she expects. While Emma desperately tries to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps its better to be her own freak than someone elses Freke.