In Sleeping Freshman Never Lie, by David Lubar, Scott Hudson and his best friends Kyle, Patrick, and Mitch, are freshman at J.P. Zenger High School. On Scott’s first day of high school, he notices Julia, a girl that he used to go to kindergarten with, is suddenly stunning. The text states, “If you’re with a girl in kindergarten, try to stay friends with her when you get older because otherwise she might forget she ever knew you, and she might get so drop-dead gorgeous you don’t have the guts to remind her that you once shared a pack of peanut-butter crackers” (Lubar 31). After a few weeks of starting high school, Scott finds out that his mom is pregnant. As high school continues, Scott learns that Patrick is moving to Texas, Mitch gets a girlfriend …show more content…
Scott overhears Kelly, Julia’s best friend, asking Julia is she finished her book review. The only people that do book reviews is the club that writes the school newspapers. Therefore, Scott decides to join the school newspaper club, so he can try to get closer to Julia, only to learn that Julia was a guest and never actually joined the club. Scott also finds out that Kelly and Julia are planning to join the drama club. By giving Scott another chance to get closer to Julia, he decides to join the drama club. After a horrible performance, Scott joins the stage crew, later to find out that Julia did not even make the cut. After failing twice trying to get closer to Julia, Scott finds out that Julia is running for student council. So again, Scott decided to run too. As usual, Julia does not make student council and Scott does. With piles of homework, a new baby brother on the way, and tons of activities to do Scott is barely getting enough sleep. After learning how hard starting high school was for him, Scott decides to start a survival guide for his upcoming younger brother. Later in the year, a new girl, named Lee, comes to J.P. Zenger High
After breaking Scott heart in Middle school , Hailey stopped hanging around with him and Stiles an gain new friends. On the start of her Junior year a man who know her bites her the night before school starts ;Hailey freaks out about it and tries to forget it, but when the night of the full moon approaches
“High school is going to kill me” (Lubar 32) said Scott on his first day of school. In Sleeping Freshman Never Lie, Scott started high school, which was not the only big change. He starts off school trying to win Julia’s heart, doing every activity she does. It doesn't work out too well though. Without knowing them Scott usually judged people on their appearance or how they acted. He also realized that his mom is acting pretty weird, and come to find out she is pregnant. Since Scott is having such a hard time in school he decides to write a journal for his new sibling. His friend group starts to change dramatically. His three best friends he would always thought he would have go off and do other things. Scott changed the most in Sleeping Freshman Never Lie because he became less judgemental, and made new friends.
Wesley Cobble had always been a bully, that is, until he became friends with Scott. Wesley had been known as a bully throughout high school. But that all changed when one morning, Wesley picked up Scott (the main character) and brought him to school, it was as if Wesley had a change in heart and wanted to be friends with Scott. Wesley wasn’t usually the type to make friends, but for some reason, he became friends with Scott, which changed him and benefited him. Wesley changed the most in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie because he went from being a bully to Scott to being his friend, and he learned to stop stealing.
Changing from beating people up and stealing their money, to being their friend, is one of the biggest changes that can be made. In the book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, the character that changed the most, was named Wesley Cobble. Wesley changed the most for multiple reasons. One of the reasons is that at the beginning of the book, Wesley stole money from Scott and other kids. But later on, Wesley stops stealing people’s money, and even becomes friends with Scott!
For some people high school is a breeze, but for some it’s not. Sleeping Freshman Never Lie is a book about a boy named Scott and his first year of high school. His brother Bobby was never a good kid in school, so he didn’t have any advice to help him. He had no clue what to expect when walking into school the first day. Scott joined a lot of the school clubs including Student Council, the School Paper, and the Stage Crew. He had his two best friends with him all of the time until they started to go their own ways. When they went their separate ways he made different friends. He met Wesley and Lee, but these were people he would’ve never been friends with before. Lee was known to be really weird, and Wesley was scary to Scott. For someone who didn’t know what to expect about high school, he did a pretty good job handling everything. Bobby changed the most in Sleeping Freshman Never Lie because he went from acting tough to opening up about his personal problems, and he went from making bad decisions to switching his life around.
A new principal was hired at Kristina's elementary school, he was also her 4th grade teacher. He respected Kristina's opinion and listened to her pitch,
In Carter’s Unfocused One-Track Mind by Brent Crawford, Carter, a teenager undergoes his sophomore year in high school. At first, Carter runs away from a fight with “Scary” Terry Moss, who is fresh out of juvie, and then bumps into his on-again off-again girlfriend, Abby. Just as Abby and Carter begin to get more serious, Abby goes to tour the New York Drama School, where she impels Carter to attend with her their junior year. In the meantime, Carter goes to homecoming with Abby’s best friend, Amber Lee, since she can not make it.
This is a big night for Liss because she is making a big step in her relationship with Greg, but it doesn’t go as planned. Georgia goes to the party with Liss thinks that it is going to be all fine and dandy, until she realizes that Liss is flirting with Daniel, or at least she thinks she is; but it’s really just the pot brownies that Evelyn gave them. The girls get mad at each other and end up in a big fight all because of it. Then everyone gets drunk and make a lot of bad decisions. Greg and Georgia kiss and then Liss finds out and is furious because he is her boyfriend.
From a bullying brother, Charlie, to a Nana with Alzheimer’s, Henry finds little support and solace on the home front. Henry reconnects with Audrey Dorn, his best friend from when Jesse was alive and finds comfort from their mutual loss. A new arrival in Henry’s life, Diego Vega, a transfer student new to Calypso, provides Henry a needed friend and confidant. A quirky science teacher, Ms. Faraci, continually encourages Henry to keep his grades up and things do get better after high
Gets in a fight right before he leaves. Beats up a guy who made fun of him because he is Jewish. When arrives to the school he finds out that he has to go to church three times a week. Also finds out that he is the only student who is Jewish and all his friends hate and make fun of them. Eventually they find out that he is Jewish and befriend him and his girl also did not want to be with him just because he is Jewish. They have to take a test and one of the students cheat. The professer tells the group of students that they themselves have to find out who cheated and they had to confess. They all say it’s David who did it. But truly it was Dillon who cheated. They find out it was him and kick him out of the school.
As the days go on, Stewart begins to realize that High School is nothing like his old school for gifted children. Although he experiences some bumps along the way like being trapped in a gym class with much older boys and dealing with his step-sister's hatred toward him, Stewart starts to make new friends named Phoebe and Violet. Lucky for Stewart, Phoebe also shares a love for science, and the two begin to bond over this similarity.
Question Describe at least ONE character or individual in the written text(s) that helped you to understand an important message. Explain how the character or individual helped you to understand this message. In the novel “The Body” by Stephen King, a twelve year old boy named Chris has helped me understand an important message, which is to never give up on our dreams. Chris suffers from having bad reputation at his town due to his family all being bad and they think he would turn out bad as well, “I know what people think of my family in this town.
Even though she has amazing grades, she still has so many friends. Elle always sticks out from the other kids. Everybody can count on Elle. She can turn a person’s day from horrible to great with a few words. If she puts her mind to do something, there is no way to stop her. Elle portrays kindness to everyone. She withholds a huge heart. While the tennis team rides the bus to Texarkana, mostly everybody falls asleep, but Elle. Elle chooses to do her homework instead. Elle uses her time very wisely, and she doesn’t waste a second. Colby Puckett’s day was horrible. So Elle comes and talks to him. She ask if everything is okay and Elle tells him everything will be okay and that she will be there if he needs anything. Once the bus arrives to Texarkana, everyone gets off the bus. All the tennis team walks to an area and stays together, but Elle walks up to the Texarkana team and talks them and wishes them good luck. Elle has a big impact on Colby Puckett's life and the lives of many
It is Melinda's first day of high school and she is dreading it. She gets on the bus and sits in the middle, not wanting to be lumped with the "losers" at the back of the bus or the little kids at the front. By the time the bus pulls into her school, however, she is still sitting alone. All of the ninth graders are corralled into the auditorium for an introduction to high school life. Melinda sits alone, noticing and annoyed by the various cliques forming around her. She spies her former close friends — Nicole, Ivy, and Rachel — joining new groups, leaving her alone. The only person who speaks to her is Heather, a girl from Ohio and with a mouth full of braces. A teacher who Melinda labels "Mr. Neck" gives a presentation to the ninth graders
Caleb Logan walks into High Field High School’s grand hall entrance and looks around him. There are students sitting on benches talking and laughing and students sitting at tables noses buried deep in textbooks, books, and homework. Some students looked like the cool kids in leather jackets and hair all done. He quickly scanned the crowd again looking for his best friends Lilliana and Sebastian. Caleb’s eyes lingered on a boy in the crowd of cool kids and saw him coughing and hacking. His eyes lingered a little longer, then he went off to find Sebastian and Lilliana.