okay!!!
August Pullman, a 6th grader with a facial disorder. It’s his first year of middle school at Beecher middle school. Not many people were interested in being friends with a “freak”, as they called him.
Your answer should be WHO.
Think of it like this: You wouldn't say "The boy it (a variant of 'which')", because it simply just sounds odd. Instead, you're wired to think "The boy, he (an unknown name, so it would be 'who')".
False it actually modifys something that has been left out of the sentence.