SOMEONE LIKE YOU

BY: SARAH DESSEN

Bri Ann Brinkley

In this novel the main characters deal with

everyday problems like everyone else.

The genre of my book is realistic, fiction

The Truth About Forever.

By: Sarah Dessen

Waiting For YouBy: Susane Colasanti

The setting makes this book a Realistic novel

In this story two girls work together to over come the challenges

they face in high school

This novel is fiction because its not based on true

people.

“For most of high school, we hadn’t known

Michael Sherwood that

well, even though we’d

grown up in the same

neighborhood.” Page 23.

Chapter Two.

QUOTES THAT MAKE THIS NOVEL REALISTIC.

“What’s wrong?”She just shook his

head.“What?” I said

She reached behind the paper towel

dispenser and pulled out a small white

stick-shaped object with a little circle on the end of it. As she held it out, I saw that little circle was bright pink cross. Then all at

once it hit me.”Page 95. Chapter

Five.

“Grandma Halley was staying in a place called Evergreen

Rest Care Facility. Some of the people were bedridden, but

other could get around; women in

motorized wheelchairs zoomed

past us down the corridors, their purses clamped against their

laps. Page 188. Chapter

Twelve

The reason for my book also being fiction is that its not based on a true story or real people. This book is about people like us handling the issues and the stress and

the problems we do. Being pressured into sex. Having a baby at a young age.

WHY THIS NOVEL IS FICTION.

“She reached behind the paper towel dispenser and pulled out a small white stick-

shaped object with a little circle on the

end of it. As she held it out, I saw

that little circle was bright pink cross. Then all at once it

hit me.”Page 95. Chapter

Five

HALLEY HELPS OVER COME THE CHALLENGES OF HER BEST FRIEND SCARLETT BEING PREGNANT.

“Halley”! Come here quick!” I whirled around. She was standing in her open front door, hand on

her stomach, waving frantically. “Now! Hurry!”“I got to the front step,

panting already in a crisis mode, and found her

smiling at me, her face excited.” “What” I said.“She took my hand and put it on her stomach, toward the middle and

down, and I felt her skin, warm under my hand. I

felt a ripple.. Of the baby kicking”

Page 215. Chapter Thirteen.

“I wondered what kind of girl she’d be, and if she’d ever see the comet that was

her name, and Grandma Halley’s,

and mine. I knew I’d try one day, to take

her and show her the sky, hold her against my lap as I told her how the comet went overhead how it was clear and beautiful, and special, just like

her.”Page 280. Chapter

Nineteen.

EVALUATION: IS SOMEONE LIKE YOU A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A

REALISTIC FICTION?

Sarah Dessen, did a great job on making this book. The reality of this novel is so real, because it happens in our

everyday life. Also the fiction of this story is that Halley and Scarlett, and all the other characters in my story are not real.

But the way this book is put together makes you visualize what’s actually happening. Her details are sharp and easy to

understand. What wasn’t so good about this book is that it was very predictable in what was going to happen. For the

most part I was very satisfied with this book.