It was a rainy April 1st when Jess was born. The irony of her being born on April Fools Day was tremendous. Why? Well, because everyone thought she was just a big old joke. Ever since she was young her parents never seemed to bother to care about her. One particular time Jess remembers is when her parents forget to wake her up to go to vacation to the Bahamas! The sad thing is they, her dad, mom, and sister, still went without her. She had to be babysat by a random babysitter while her family was out having fun. She never seemed to make any friends, no matter how hard she tried. Compared to her sister, she was a disappointment. Her sister had straight A’s, played volleyball, ran track, was the homecoming queen and was also the most popular and the prettiest girl in school. On top of this, she had a major crush on the most popular boy in the school. She doesn’t even understand why she likes him, she just has for the last 5 years for some reason. I mean Kevin was a shallow and a horrible person. Yet, she liked him and the reason for that is a mystery. One day, her life completely changed and I mean completely changed. She was sitting in her room and blasting her music. Her favorite singer was Taylor Swift and right now she was listening to her new hit. Then suddenly a speckle of something fell on the tip of her nose. She looked up to see glitter falling from the ceiling! Then, all the sudden a strange creature appeared. Her name was April, and apparently she was Jess’
April was forced to wear very ugly clothing to school. Mrs. DeRosier also wasn't sending the mail that April was sending and receiving from Cheryl. Jennifer, a former friend of April helped her out in both of these areas.
When Bryce Loski was seven years old, he moved into a new neighborhood. A little girl named Juli Baker lived across the street. She insisted on helping Bryce and his family move in but was a little too pushy and had muddy shoes and Bryce was immediately annoyed by her. Juli was constantly at the door wanting to play; Bryce's dad made many excuses for him for several weeks. Bryce started second grade, Juli Baker constantly pestered him, following him around at school, This went on til seventh grade, when Bryce's grandfather Chet Duncan moves in with the family. Chet finds Juli different, special, kind of girl who's hard to come across. there was this old sycamore tree that Juli loved to climb and no one ever understood why. One day, the
Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.
She is an amazing softball player but she decided to challenge herself by joining a travel team. A travel team is a higher level of competition that helps get girls notice from colleges to get athletic scholarships. Tryouts finally came she thought she had a long shot after seeing the competition. She gave it her all and it resulted with her making the team. Now every weekend she goes to different cities playing tournaments all day from the morning to the late afternoons. Lucky for Jazlyn she got to really know her teammate and her St. Mary sister, Dominque Montelongo. Even though, Jazlyn was busy with softball she still made time for family. On Fourth of July
The reason for this is because at the end of the summer she went to this party and something had happened that traumatized her. She ended up
Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of 9th grade at Merryweather High, And it did not go so well. All her old friends don't talk to her. Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda really wants to tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. Melinda calls her English teacher Hairwoman, because she hides behind all her hair. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anybody to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with food and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck makes Melinda stop, and expects an answer but since she can't speak,she gets in trouble. After that, she had Art
Caitlin is a 16 year old high school girl who lives with her mom and dad. She also has a sister named Cassie who was supposed to be going to Yale but quit and went to live with her boyfriend in New York. Caitlin meets a boy named Rogerson at a party and they start going out, she is not very happy about the choices that he makes but is so in love she would not leave him. Caitlin starts falling back on school, family and cheer team, which she quit because Rogerson says that she isn’t spending enough time with him. Soon they breakup because Rogerson starts beating Caitlin that she has to go to the hospital. After Rogerson and Caitlin were done Caitlin says “After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did”.
Kelley Brennan has an amazing day planned. It's Earth Day and Her sixth-grade class is going to plant a blooming dogwood tree, and she is going to give a short speech to everybody about the project she did for science class to help protect the wild bird hatchlings on top of the local hardware store. She even gets up early to attempt to paint a picture of the world on her thumb in honor of the special event. Kelley is so very excited about all these things. But what she doesn’t know is that there is something else in store for her and her mom that day, something that they did not plan on happening.
Peggy Sturmfels was adopted in the early 1990’s when she was two weeks old. Her birth parents were just teenagers and couldn’t even take care of themselves therefore they felt it would be in Peggi’s best interest if they allow her to get the best life possible with someone who could provide for her. They opted for a closed adoption because at the time no one knew she was even pregnant. Her adoptive parents John and Gabrielle Sturmfels agreed with Peggy’s birth parents and vowed not to tell her about the adoption. To her birth parent’s wishes John and Gabrielle gave Peggy the best life a child could imagine, she was their little princess and they treated her like royalty. Peggy was sent to the best schools and graduated high school as valedictorian. After graduation John and Gabrielle had a huge surprise for Peggy; they were going to allow her to attend the college of her dreams: UCLA. Peggi had dreamed to go there but her parents did not feel comfortable with her being so far away from home. Three months later Peggi had packed up and had started her first semester of college. She was doing very well and passing all her classes so she felt it was time for her to have a night to just relax and have some fun. Her friend Abby suggested that they go to one of the Frat parties close to their dorm. Peggy agreed and they went. At the party there was drugs and alcohol everywhere and Peggi didn 't feel comfortable but Abby insisted she stayed and referred to her as a “party pooper”.
When Phoebe moved to her new school she made many friends, but she just made one mistake. Her anecdote begins at South Hadley High School. She was 15 years old starting at a new school. Moving from Ireland to Massachusetts must of been hard but she started out great. She made new friends and was enjoyable to most of her classmates. But one day she made the mistake of dating one of the most popular guys. When they started dating she thought people would be
April loves visiting schools and share with students the joy of reading, writing, research. April Henry buys nearly all her clothes on eBay, she can’t parallel park, her maternal great grandfather was in an arson gang and her paternal great grandfather was gunned down by her grandmother’s boyfriend for kissing her. When April was twenty-four years old, a man broke into her apartment when she was in the shower.
Zoe, Zoe Sunny Conti was the most popular and prettiest at Pinnacle high school at least that was what she thought. Her father was one wealthy man, he owned a company and Zoe had fancy expensive clothing and the newest iphone with nice luxurious cars that her father owned, she, herself owned a Range Rover. Though she was known well at school there was another girl her name was Kaylee Chloe Parsons her ex-bestie, their whole friendship ended because of a guy that they both liked, which the guy moved to Oregon the next year. Anyway back to Zoe and Kaylee, stopped being friends sophomore year and they always try to be better than one another in everything, throwing the better party, looking the best, having the most expensive brand clothing, dating the “hotter” guy, everything even P.E. dodgeball. Kaylee wasn't her enemy this time as the days went on. One day her dad got home she was in the living room watching a movie while she looked at her dad and he looked sad, upset just not in the bestest of the mood, she wondered why this must of been
While this all occurred in a matter of time, the girls were separated and Cheryl depended on April for support throughout growing up because she had no one else to depend on. Throughout the years of being in care and no parental guidance Cheryl looked up to April for reassurance as at a visit that the parents missed, they were both confused, this incident shaped their lives until they grew older to finally comprehend the reason why. Cheryl later finds out the truth of why her parents didn’t attend the visit that leads her down a polluted lifestyle that brings out lies which makes the two sister drift apart from one another. Those lies that includes in the drifted relationship of the sisters, as April didn’t know Cheryl was a prostitute that had an alcohol problem and most of all a son. The truth about Cheryl’s secret life coming forth affects April a lot, because Cheryl later takes her own life as she knows April doesn’t know her identity.
They had not liked how Agnes had made them wake up early to start off their spring break. Going to Agnes’s dusty old vacation home had been her idea. She had figured that she and her friends should have a break from social media, and so she had invited them. As Agnes pulled out of the driveway she had a sudden feeling that she had forgotten something. The feeling soon faded. ‘I can’t be a party pooper’ she thought, ‘It’s a sleepover, lighten up Agnes.’ One by one the 22-year olds stepped out of the car. Stepping out first, were Sarah and Jane. Both girls had tired eyes, “it’s too early for this, Agnes!” they complained. They pulled their bags out of the trunk and began walking towards the steps of the house. The house seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, nothing but trees and grass could be seen. The house was incredibly big, green vines grew off of the sides of the house. A cab arrived a few minutes later, it was the boys, Jack and Jeremiah. They stepped out with wide smiles on their faces. Jeremiah had a thing for Jane and Jack had one for Agnes. In fact, they had been going to dates together for two months now. Once the boys took their belongings from the cab and paid the driver, all five of them headed towards the
The book that I read for my forth novel study is dirty little secrets. The book is about Lucy. Lucy and her best friend Kaylie are at the movie theatre figuring which movie to watch and when they decided to watch chick flick and there outside of the theatre they both josh and Steve. Lucy had a crush on josh and Kaylie had crush on Josh’s best friend Steve. After watching the movie with josh Lucy thought that this is probably the best memory she had in her boring life. When Lucy got out of the theatre josh stopped her and asked her if she can come to watch his band perform at a party. Lucy said that she will try. Lucy heads home and thinks how she will even go to the party without an excuse so she came up with an excuse. Her excuse to her mom was that she is going to sleepover