RJ #15

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished Monster High By: Lisi Harrison. I have never read a book by this author, but I know she's written a lot of books including the very popular Clique series. I know when you here monster high you think of the dolls for 6 year old's or the web show for 8-10 year old's but to my surprise this book was great. It had basically nothing to do with the dolls and such. The only thing was less than half the characters where in this book. This book has high teenage content, so that proved you cannot judge a book by it's name.

This book is about a girl, Frankie Stein who is 15, days old. Her father Viktor is an inventor/ collage teacher. He created Frankie in his lab, every day he put in a years worth of knowledge, so when she hit 15 days he stop mentally aging her. A couple days later Frankie's Mom and Dad told her about the RADs ( Regular Attribute Dodgers) which are all the monsters, she finds out her parents are RADs too! They tell her that back in the 1930s and before Monsters and Normies ( what RADs call humans) lived peacefully all over America ,but when horror movies came out Normies started to think the Monsters were playing tricks on them. Ever since then monsters had to move to Salem,Organ and form the RADs and hide. Then Frankie has to go to Merston High School were she may mess everything up for the RADs...

This book is about a girl, Melody Carver who is 15, and is moving to Salem, Organ for a couple of reasons, she has asthma and the air in Salem is better for her to breath, She was bullied because of her nose. She had the biggest, ugliest nose in all of Los Angeles and probably the country. The only thing someone would talk to her about is her about is her angelic voice but when she loses it to asthma at age 8 she is just considered another ugly face in the crowd until her father, the plastic surgeon operates and makes her nose perfect! Now she is probably the prettiest girl in Salem, Organ. But Melody is ANYTHING but a snob!

I used six strategies while reading two before, two during and two after.

Two before:

1. I read the synopsis
2. I went on a website about the book to see what other people thought about it.

Two during:

1. after every chapter I summarized what I read

1. if I did not understand something I would re-read it

Two after:

1. I summarized the book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom

The protagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Herslef, Her mom and Dad and all of the RAD's

The antagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Melody, Jackson, and Normies in general.

The protagonists are ( from Melody's point of view): Herself, Jackson and her family

The antagonist is ( from Melody's point of view): Cleo.

I love how this book was set up every other chapter was Frankie or Melody. The POV was 3^rd person and the way the author did it was, lets say the chapter was about Melody and she saw something that Frankie knew about, the author wouldn’t mention it in Melody's chapter. The POO is chronological order. The author's purpose was to entertain. The genre of this book is Fantasy, the sub genre was partially realistic Fiction even though it had monsters in it.

I would rate this book 5/5 because I loved it! I loved it because of the characters and the way the book was set up. I recommend this book to teen girls ages 12-16 who like modern day/ teen books and like fantasy/ drama. IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF PERSON THEN I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU IF YOU ARE NOT DON'T!

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