The Daughters is a realistic fiction, young adults, and a contemporary book. Based in New York City, Lizzie Summers is the daughter of Katia Summers who is a supermodel and Bernard Summers who is a journalist. She had red frizzy hair, thick eyebrows, buggy eyes, a confused nose, full lips, and broad knuckles. Her friends were Carina Jurgensen and Hudson Jones. Carina Jurgensen is the daughter of Karl Jurgensen, a billionaire of Metronome Media. Hudson Jones is the daughter of Holla Jones, a chart-topping pop icon. Lizzie learns to accept herself as who she is throughout the story. Struggling with her school life and her outside life, Lizzie Summers wasn't an ordinary child. After an incident with her mother, Lizzie was approached by a fashion photographer who thought that she was the new face of beauty. Expecting fans and the media to adore her mother, Lizzie was never fond of the medias. When she unexpectedly agrees, she was the one who was captured with attention by the media's spotlight. After in the modeling business, Lizzie decided that modeling wasn't her thing and that she wanted to be herself, not like her mother. I would recommend this book to teens who love young adult books. People who want to read a book about teens with famous parents and their lifestyle in a realistic fiction novel would read this book. This is the first book of the series the Daughters. "They didn't ask for fame. They were born with it."
Most of the books I've read this quarter were fiction. In many of the books, there are always mysteries, adventure, drama, and romance which made the stories more unexpected and interesting.
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'll Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. Cammie Morgan is a sophomore elite spy in training at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. In a school full of spy geniuses, Cammie has learned everything except for love, she takes the risk. She has fallen for boy who thinks she is a regular girl, and she has fallen for a ordinary boy. This is the first book of the series by Ally Carter. This story was very suspense. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin. This is a realistic fiction book in which it is about a lifestyle of teenagers with famous parents. Living as a daughter of a famous supermodel and writer was hard enough for Lizzie Summers.She wasn't pretty like her mother. She was different. In the middle of all of her life, there were many challenges. Lizzie struggles to keep up with her school life, her love life, and her work life. Through all of that, she learned to accept herself as who she was, not by what she thinks she was. This was a very fun book to read. The Princess Plot by Kirsten Boie. The Princess Plot is about an ordinary girl named Jenna who thinks that she was just acting as a princess of Scandia for a movie, but soon finds out that it was real. Scandia was split up into the North and South back when the king was still ruling. A few months after he died, the princess, Malena, went missing and ran away. Her uncle, Norlan, plans to change the settlement between the North and South without the real princess. Jenna is in a middle of a plot between the Norlan and Malena, in which she has to act in order to save her life. This was a book filled with anticipation. "Lies. Camera. Action." The Princess Trap by Kirsten Boie. In the sequel to the Princess Trap, Jenna is still acting and adjusting to the new country. When it all started, everyone would wish that they were a princess, but for Jenna, this wasn't a lifestyle she wanted to live in. As Jenna tries to escape, she was kidnapped. Jumbled in between her being captured and after, Jenna was in a middle of a conspiracy that would overthrow the king and start a civil war where she has to stop all of it from happening. This is the sequel to the series the Princess Plot. This was a very unpredictable book that keeps you guessing what happens on every page. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter. After her first famous heist at the Henley, Katrina Bishop is back for another heist. This time, the object that was targeted was the famous Cleopatra emerald. Legend has it that anyone that goes near it will be cursed, but that isn't the case for Kat. Little does Kat know that the person she gave the emerald to was her blood-relative, her grandma. After knowing that Katrina tries to steal back the emerald with her crew; Hale, Simon, Gabrielle, Hamish, and Marcus. The sequel to the book Heist Society, this was a very adventurous book. Zeitoun by Dave Eggars. After Hurricane Katrina hit the east coast, there were many davastions and destruction. Through it all, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was one of many lucky survivors of Hurricane Katrina and a hero. As he stayed in New Orleans, he comes through many challenges, but the last one. This was a very interesting book about a biography during Hurricane Katrina. |
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