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Elizabeth Rew In The Grimm Legacy

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The main character in The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman is Elizabeth Rew. She is the new girl at Fisher High, and ever since her best friend Nicole moved to California and her dad couldn’t afford her dance classes, she has been ostracized in the new school. Elizabeth is extremely caring and compassionate. She stuck “up for Mallory Mason when some of the cool girls were making up songs about her weight and braces.” (Shulman 8) Even though Elizabeth was trying to find some new friends at her school, she still stood up for what was right. Ms. Stanhope, the assistant principal at Fisher even “used [her] as an example of ‘compassionate leadership’ in her next ‘class chat’.” (Shulman 8) Another important character in the novel is Marc Merrit. He

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