Freak the Mighty: Rodman Philbrick

A brilliant, emotionally charged novel about two boys. One is a slow learner, too large for his age, and the other is a tiny, disabled genius. The two pair up to create one formidable human force known as "Freak the Mighty". Max. Freak. Best Friends. Forever. I never had a brain until Freak came along. . .That`s what Max thought. All his life he`d been called stupid. Dumb. Slow. It didn`t help that his body seemed to be growing faster than his mind. It didn`t help that people were afraid of him. So Max learned how to be alone. At least until Freak came along. Freak was weird, too. He had a little body, and a really big brain. Together Max and Freak were unstoppable. Together, they were Freak the Mighty.