Melissa

=Melissa=

//Frozen// by Robin Wasserman (Previously known as //Skinned// by Robin Wasserman)

//Everyone will die someday. Everyone but Lia.// The Download was supposed to change the world.It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life. Lia knows she should be grateful she didn't die in the accident. The Download saved her--but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents' eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can't deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror. She's not the same person she used to be.Maybe she's not even a person at all. **Why this book is important to me:** This book is important to me because it touches me somewhere that a lot of other stories don't exactly reach. In this book, there is a girl who is the outcast, the freak, the one person that everyone looks at and whispers about. And even though the text is talking about a girl turned machine, the underlying message shines through and it's about how this girl feels so alone in a high school full of mean kids.That kind of message is the perfect one to convey to teenagers, because at this point in my life, I realize that everyone feels alone here. Since this book is only the first in the series, the ending is a cliff hanger and there's no real justice until the last book. I found out about this series when Robin Wasserman was due to visit her old high school, AKA here, and I bought all her books. I think what most made me want to read these books was the idea that someone from this high school went on to be an actual ,well known author. It gives me hope that maybe I could make it too. //The Truth About Forever// by Sarah Dessen Macy’s summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy’s plans don’t anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or … Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn’t fit Macy’s life at all–so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So … happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before? Sarah Dessen delivers a page-turning novel that carries readers on a roller coaster of denial, grief, comfort, and love as we watch a broken but resilient girl pick up the pieces of her life and fit them back together.
 * Summary:** //(From Robin Wasserman's website)//
 * Summary:** //(From Sarah Dessen's website)//

I received this book the first Christmas iiever asked to get books. So already, right off the bat, this is an important book to me. As the first book I received in the whirlwind of me falling in love with reading, it has its own corner staked out in my heart. Sarah Dessen is one of my favorite author's of all time because of the way she writes and how she deals with different issues teenage girls deal with. I chose //The Truth About Forever// out of all of her books because this story changed my life. In this book a young girl is being the perfect child for her mom. She does what she's supposed to and decides that her sister went outside the line enough for both of them when she was a teenager. But something happens that makes her realize that she is young, and that maybe life is fragile, and that maybe being perfect sounds good on paper, but its so utterly boring. The adventures she goes through and the people she becomes friends with are so realistic that its easy to place myself as Macy and pretend I went through everything she did. I have never envied a character in a book more than when Sarah Dessen writes a new book, because her characters don't have it easy, but they are strong and resilient and they survive tragedies that some of us can't even imagine.
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