RJ #16

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished reading, Monster High: The ghoul next door by: Lisa Harrison. This is book #2 in the Monster High series. Yes, I have read BOOK #1, I did last week's journal on it. I liked the part when Celo told her dad that she would be totally adult if he let her do the photo shoot. And she totally lied. So I thought it was really funny that she just totally went back on what she said. This book, unlike the last one, had chapters including: Cleo, Frankie, and Melody. Appose to the last book which only included Frankie and Melody.

I used six strategies while reading, 2 before,2 during, and 2 after.

Two before:

I read the synopsis

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 genre of this book is Fantasy, the sub genre was partially realistic Fiction even though it had monsters in it.

The protagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Herslef, Her mom, Dad, Cleo, Melody, Brett and all the rads.

The antagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Melody, Brett, Bekka, Celo.

The protagonists are ( from Melody's point of view): Herself, Jackson, Candace, and the RADs

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

The protaganist are( from Celo's point of view): HERSELF.

The Antagnist are ( from Celos Point of view): Bekka, Frankie,Melody, Brett, and all the RADs that don't put “her needs” first.

I love how this book was set up every other chapter was Frankie, Melody, or Celo and I liked that chapter 13 was Billy. 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.

This book took place right were book 1 left off. Where at the dance Frankie kissed Brett and her head fell off. Where Bekka Threaten Melody to find the “green monster” who “attacked” Brett, or she'd post the video of Jackson turning into D.J. , his other half. At the hospital Brett finds out it was Frankie who he kissed. Meanwhile,Celo gets a job to model in TEEN VOGUE mag. She is afraid of losing her attention/ popularity because of Melody and Frankie that she lies and tells LA LA , Clawdeen, and Blue. That she got them jobs too!Meanwhile, Frankie and Brett start to go out, and Brett decides that he should do a face blurred documentary of the RADs so every teen RAD decides to do it. Exept Celo because she finds out that it is on the same day as her TEEN VOUGE shoot and when her friends don't want to do it anymore she makes a plan with Bekka to trash the movie. Then, the man who is producing the movie is made that it is blurred so, they cancel it all together. But then the guy lies and says he is going to put it on air even though it is blurred. Brett decided have a celebration party at his house with all the RADs, then they watch it, to see see it's unburied!

The figurative language are; similes and metaphors.

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!

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD AND WILL JUST IGNORE YOUR “QUESTION”