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Belles By Jen Calonita Analysis

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There are many rights and wrongs in society today. In a book I have read, Belles, by Jen Calonita it shows many of those things that society judges you on. This novel can influence a change in society in in many ways. In Belles, a girl named Izzie, who is about 15, moves in with her long lost dad who is a very famous person. People start writing stories about how he is a horrible man because he ditched his daughter and girlfriend when Izzie was born. When really he didn’t even know that Izzie existed because her mom and dad boke up before her mom knew she was pregnant with Izzie and never told her dad. This shows how we shouldn 't trust everything we read which is what makes people have bad reputations in today 's society. This would also

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