1.Melody Brooks is the main character. Even though she suffers from spastic bilateral quadriplegia, she is one of the smartest kids in her grade. One example that proves this, is when she gets every question right on the quiz team trial exam.
2.Penny is Melody’s little sister. She is very energetic and bright. She is energetic because in the book she was always dressing up or running away in a comical sense.For example, on pages 173 & 174, She crawls away from her mother towards her father and says “Go work Daddy?”.
3.Connor is one of melody’s classmates. He is very loud and bursts out quite often. One example of this, is when they are taking the practice test, he yells “Baby Questions!”
4.Mrs. Valencia is like Melody’s second mother.She
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Catherine is melody’s aid.According to Melody, she has a very odd sense of clothing choice. She is also very defensive. When Claire or Molly are being rude, she snaps at them.
10. Melody disability is called Cerebral Palsy. This disability makes it so she can’t walk talk or even take care of herself. As a side effect of this she has “Tornado Storms” which is when she screams, jerks and screeches. She has these Tornadoes when she gets to excited.
11.There is a conflict at the end when Melody and her family plan to go to D.C for the quiz competition. They arrive at the airport only to realize that the team left her behind. Melody is devastated and the team places 9th in the competition.
12.The theme don’t judge a book by its cover is used in this book a couple ways. All the doctors underestimated Melody and told her parents that she was really dumb, but little they know she had many mental capabilities.On the outside Melody is a small girl in a pink wheelchair with dark curly hair and brown eyes, with one of the eyes being slightly out-of-whack. On the inside she is a brilliant learner with thirst for knowledge. Another example of don’t judge a book by its cover is also demonstrated, when Mr. Dimming underestimates Melody’s intelligence at the quiz team
M’Lynn is the backbone of her family dealing with a somewhat eccentric husband and two wild teenaged boys. Her biggest concern in life however, is her daughter’s health, going so far as to donate one of her kidneys to her when hers fails due to her severe diabetes. Shelby is considered the prettiest girl in town. She marries a wealthy lawyer and becomes pregnant against her doctor’s advice, a decision which ultimately leads to her death.
The main Characters are: Heather, she is a little girl that has 7 years old. She wants to make Molly’s and Michael’s life miserable.
“The Empirical Kids” By David Brooks In 2013 David Brooks wrote a piece for the Opinion Page of The New York Times. The piece provoked responses that were both positive and negative to his argument. Interestingly, the crux of his argument is taken from a student he taught at Yale University named Victoria Buhler. Buhler’s analysis came from an assignment for Brooks’ Yale taught class that looked into Brook’s 2001 piece for The Atlantic called “The Organizational Kid”. This is important to note as it sheds light on how Buhler came to the conclusions she did.
Leah, is one half of the set of twins and was almost like the perfect golden child, who was also intelligent. Leah was the one who mostly supported and followed her father, she also brings the tomboy side, with hunting aspects and wanting to hangout and do what the males do. Rachel’s perspective throughout was selfish and privileged. Rachels chapters are filled with complaining and comparisons to her old life in Georgia and when she gets older she is still all about the luxurious lifestyle and puts herself in front of others while throwing out racial slurs. Next, Adah, she was Leah’s twin and the disabled one people overlooked, when in actuality, she was so smart she could read and write backwards.
Millicent Min, Girl Genius is about this girl, Millicent, who is supposed to be in middle school, 11 years old; but is in high school and college. It is summer for Millicent and the other kids, and Milicent takes a college prep class and her mom makes her join volleyball. Millicent goes to her college and volleyball classes until something makes her speechless. She had to tutor Stanford Wong. Stanford Wong was an ordinary person, but much, much dumber.
How to Escape a Library Will Kyle and his teammates escape from the library before the time runs out? Escape from Mr.Lemoncello 's Library by Chris Grabenstein is definitely a book of ups and downs. Kyle, along with his other teammates, win an essay contest and the prize, is being the first to stay overnight at Alexdriaville 's new public library. To their surprise, they all get locked in the library and have to escape before the time runs out. With a dynamic cast of loyal characters, a lively setting, and a powerful theme, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello 's Library is a great book for teens and young adults.
Main character sammy is a witty, rude, immature boy who is driven by sexual characteristics of women. His masculinity is hindered when the three girls are kicked out and must feel like “their unsuspected hero” to them by quitting his job. Unfortunately, the girls don't stop. “Queenie” (5), is characterized as striking and confident. She's bold and the herring snacks implies she is rich.
That is until he meets Melody, a misunderstood burn victim. Melody is hard to look at due to the fact her face is severely scarred from an incident that happened when she was a young girl. As Melody and Leon grew happy with each other, Amy came back into Leon’s life, and everything went downhill for Leon there. In the book, readers learn that people don't always gave to fulfill their expectations if they’re already happy.
Catherine is a truly nice character. Catherine is just like a person I know called Samantha. She was my neighbor and she was really sensitive and protective of her
Bobo is a dynamic character, he recognizes that he bullied Amat only because he was older and felt Amat was lower than him because he was poor even though Bobo is lower middle class as well. Bobo goes onto to befriend Amat and protect his friends from the others. Bobo sees how terrible some of the people are the team are and that they hurt people because they don’t see them as equals. William Lyt is a leader on the hockey team who takes over when Kevin is arrested. His parents moved in next to Kevin’s family so that their kids would be best friends and Williams mother is a big part of the fight against Maya and claims she was lying.
Once at the deaf school Matt thrived and quickly became the star of the wrestling team. He learned sign language and met a lot of deaf and hard of hearing friends. Bonnie on the other hand went to a hearing college and forced herself to succeed. She had a lot of troubles in class to start but she found a few ways to cope. One of the ways is that she had upperclassmen take notes for her and she studied constantly.
1. The Beautiful and Damned: this novel tells the story of the handsome Anthony patch 's life. The novel follows the progression of his love for the beautiful Gloria Gilbert. It traces their attachment through their courtship and marriage through their endless parties to their financial difficulties and finally the fabricate achievement of Anthony. 2. Tales of the Jazz Age : it is a collection of short stories, divided into three separate parts according to the subject importance .
Lost in The Sun Lost in The Sun by Lisa Graff is a book about Trent Zimmerman, a kid who just started middle school and declares it will be better than the 5th grade. 5th grade was rough, he accidentally killed a kid. Jared Richards was born with a birth defect in his heart. The boys were playing hockey one day, and when the puck shot him in the heart, he died. Middle school was a “fresh start” for Trent.
Mrs. V. is supportive; she encourages and helps Melody to reach her goals. Mrs. V. makes Melody flashcards and improves her communication board to help her reach her ambitions. Mrs. V. is also very sweet. She talks to Melody like a normal child and puts Melody's needs before her own. She assists Melody as she was packing for Washington D.C..
Deenie The first main characters name is Deenie and her three traits are stubborn, independent, and kind. she is an average girls as she would say but her mother would say she was born with a beautiful face that she needs to put to good use Deenie's mother often says god gave you a pretty face for a reason. Deenie goes to school the same as any other kid but she often gets to skip school for auditions. These auditions are for modeling jobs Deenies mother is always setting up interviews for deenie but deenie does not want to model but she wiud never tell her mother that.