Character 2

The second character in this book is Julianna Baker. . She has long brown hair. She lives with her mom, dad, two brothers, and a dog. She raises chickens in her back yard that she won the science fair with from one of her teachers. There are six hens. She has had them for two years. They live in a homemade chicken coop, and Julie is the only one that takes care of them. She sells her chicken eggs for money from her neighbors, and gives some to Bryce every week. She gets very good grades in school. She also likes to hang out at the big sycamore tree. She likes to feel the wind go through her hair. Her brothers have a big snake that eats eggs and whole rats. Her brothers also have a band. They play the guitar and drums. They also like to hang out with Bryce’s sister. She also has a retarded uncle that lives in a mental hospital. He is her dad’s brother. He was born retarded because he had his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck at birth. Both of her parents work to support her uncle. She lives across the street from the Loski’s. That is everything about Julianna Baker.

Character 1

The first character in this book is Bryce Loski. He has blue eyes, and blond hair. He lives with his mom, dad, and sister. He doesn’t get along with his sister though. They don’t get along, because she is kind of mean to him, and she has a bad temper, so he makes her mad a lot even if he doesn’t try to. His grandpa Chet also comes to live with his family in the fifth grade. He also doesn’t get along with his grandpa either, because ever since he came to live with them all he does is sit in his arm chair and stare out the window all day long. He doesn’t talk to anyone. He also made Bryce mad one time when Juli started to fix up her yard, his grandpa went over to help her, and never does anything with Bryce. He also has a best friend named Garrett. Bryce moves to town as a second grader, and through out the book he becomes a fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grader. In school he isn’t very good in spelling, but Juli helps him by whispering words in his ear. He also went out for the science fair and lost. He lives across the street from the Bakers. Ever since he has lived across the street from the Bakers he knew that she liked him, but he doesn’t like her because he thinks she is annoying. That’s everything about Bryce Loski.

Conflict

There are two conflicts in this book. One is Julianna likes Bryce, but he doesn’t like her, and isn’t very nice to her. From the moment they supposedly held hands Juli has liked Bryce. She has been following him around and smelling his hair. He tries to stay away from her but she just keeps following him. She gets really mad at him and starts to see the kind of person he is when she finds out about her eggs being thrown away. After this she starts to see that he is mean and he talks about her behind her back. During the eighth grade Juli stops liking Bryce because he does some mean stuff and she just stops liking him. Also, during the eighth grade Bryce starts to like Juli because he saw a picture of Juli and couldn’t stop thinking about her so he started to like her. Then when they were eating with their basket boys or the people that bought them Bryce tried to kiss Juli in front of everything and everyone. This confuses Juli and she starts to hide from Bryce when he wants to talk to her and apologize and tell her he likes her. He also wanted to tell her that he is sorry about throwing away her eggs and making fun of her uncle.
The other conflict in this book is Bryce wants Juli to leave him alone, but she won’t. She just keeps bugging him and following him everywhere. He didn’t like it so he asked out Shelly Stalls. When that didn’t work and Juli got rid of her Bryce decided to be nice to her and see if she would go away. When that happened she started to follow him around more. Then he made her mad when she found out about the eggs and he felt bad about throwing the eggs away, but he was also happy that she was leaving him alone. He also made her mad by telling her her house was a mess. He felt bad and tried to apologize to her, but she was ignoring him, so he couldn’t apologize to her. He then saw a picture of her in the newspaper and started to like her. Then the conflict is that Bryce likes Juli but she doesn’t like Bryce anymore. That is how the story ends.

Theme/Lessons

The theme or lesson of this book that the characters learn is that don’t judge someone until you get to know them. Julianna probably learned this lesson first, because she only liked Bryce just for his blue eyes and his smell, and she really didn’t know him that well or not at all. She really didn’t get to know him at all until they were in the seventh grade and she found out that he was throwing away her eggs secretly for two years. After that she really started to see who he really was. She started to notice that Bryce wasn’t very nice and that he was talking about her family behind her back without her knowing about it. Bryce learned this lesson near the end the book when he saw how nice Juli really was. He at the beginning of the book thought that Juli was just annoying, but she was just been nice. He then realized that she was nice to him all those years and he was just a big jerk. After he realized this and started to like Juli it was too late, because Juli had stopped liking him and was mad at him for what he did. So he shouldn’t have judged Juli the way he did and just have got to know her, and Juli should have got to know Bryce before she started to like him, or she maybe should’ve got to know him first and then decided if she liked him or not. That is the lesson of this book.

Setting

This book takes place all over town, but it mostly takes place in one neighborhood. The neighborhood that it takes place in is where Bryce and Julianna live, the two main characters of this book. One place in the neighbor is at Bryce’s house where Bryce and Julianna first meet. It is also where Julianna finds out about the eggs and where the two families have dinner at for the first time since Bryce’s family moved in six years ago. The second place in this neighborhood that this book takes place in is at Juliana’s house. At Juli’s house they raise chickens in their back yard, and where Juli’s brothers have a snake in there bedroom. Also in part of the book at her house Juli fixes up the her house and yard by painting the fences that surround it, growing some grass in their yard, and cutting down the shrubs in front of her house. In the end of the book also Bryce plants a sycamore tree in Juli’s front yard. Other places that this book takes place in is at the bus stop by the sycamore tree. The sycamore tree is part of the setting, because that is where Juli climbs the tree every day and spent most of her time when she had some free time. She liked to sit up there let the air blow through her hair like a brush would go through someone’s hair. She would also sit up there and see when the bus was coming, because you could see for many miles sitting in the top branches of the tree. Another place the book took a place in a lot was at the school that Bryce and Juli went to. The school was the place that Juli followed Bryce around the most. It was where Juli smelled Bryce, because she sat behind him in class and gave him answers to his spelling tests. It is also where Juli found out that Bryce was making fun of her uncle when he was telling his friend in the library. The basket boy biddings were held there and where Juli bought Jon and his basket and where Shelly and Miranda bought Bryce and his basket. In the school also was where Bryce tried to kiss Juli in front of everyone. Those are the places that this book took place in.

Summary

This book is told from two points of views Bryce, and Julianna. The first point of view it is told from is Bryce. Bryce moves to a new town as second grader and the first person he meets is Julianna Baker. Julianna is the second point of view in this book. Julianna is Bryce’s neighbor and is in the same grade as him. The first time Bryce meets Julianna and Julianna meets Bryce is when they are moving into there new house. Bryce and his dad are unpacking the moving truck when Julianna comes over and tries to help, but it worse. While trying to get away from her they end up holding hands and that’s when Juli really starts to like him. From the moment they held hands Juli has been waiting for Bryce to like her, but all Bryce wants is for Juli to leave him alone. Ever since they met in the second grade Juli has been following Bryce around. Now there in fifth grade and Bryce is sick of Juli following him everywhere so he asks out Shelly Stalls thinking Juli would leave him alone, but Juli got rid of Shelly and that made it even worse for Bryce. It’s worse because now Juli even follows him around more to prevent him from asking out anyone else. Now there in the sixth grade and Julianna sits right behind Bryce and starts to smell his hair. She also starts whispering spelling words in his ear which really helps Bryce. In the middle of the sixth grade they cut down a huge sycamore tree that Juli liked very much. After they cut it down Juli was very sad and mad and she started to ride her bike to school, because she didn’t want to be around anyone anymore. Also Juli’s chickens started to lay eggs and she started to give Bryce’s family some eggs, but because Bryce’s family was afraid of getting salmonella Bryce started to throw the eggs away without anyone knowing. Then in the seventh grade Juli found that Bryce was throwing her eggs away after a year and that he was doing it because Bryce’s family thought her yard was a mess she got really mad. Juli decided to show him and started to fix and clean up her yard. After seventh grade and after Juli fixed her yard Juli and Bryce were in the eighth grade. Bryce started to like Juli. Also Bryce was elected to be a basket boy. At the buying of the basket boys Shelly Stalls and Miranda bought Bryce and his basket. Juli bought Jon Burlock and his basket. While Bryce and Juli were having lunch with the people that bought them on they bought. Bryce tried to kiss Juli in the middle of everything, around a whole bunch of people. After that Juli tried to stay away from Bryce as much as she could, and Bryce tried to get to Juli as much as he could to apologize. In the end Bryce doesn’t get to talk to Juli, so instead Bryce plants a sycamore tree in Juli’s back yard.

about me

My name is Paige Huewe and I am 13 years old. I have a twin sister named Mackenzie, a mom named Diane, a half-sister named Ella, two stepbrothers named Laine and Landen, a stepmom named Chris, and a dad named Scott. At my dads we have a baby kitty named Tinkerbell. I like to play basketball for a school sport and just for fun. I like to watch TV and I also like to read sometimes. I like to play outside with my little siblings to sometimes. I also like to listen to music. Thats pretty much all about me.

Memoir

When i was 11 years old I broke my arm. It hurt really bad. I broke my radius right in two and I fractured my growth plate. It also looked kind of gross to. I looked like a step. I broke it by falling off a horse that was running. It felt like it got ran over by a truck. It was just running along and I fell off , because I only had one stirrup. The other one fell off. I had to have 4 casts , because I had surgery. I had to have surgery , because they had to put my growth plate back in place. They put it back in place by putting two 3in. pins in my arm to hold it in place while it healed. Now my wrist is good. So that's when I broke my arm.