Drama Queen

                                              

Author- Lara Bergen                                        

 Protagonist- Charlie

Number of pages- 164

Let’s get started-

This story actually ONLY revolves around Charlie and the school’s play, though there are some other interesting bits and pieces too, to complete the whole ‘Sixth-grader-but-proud’ scheme (well, I think that the author is trying to portray that)

Charlie has a tough life growing up with her twin cheerleader sisters, a brother who is crazy about his band and a younger sister who imagines that she is friends with this ‘invisible entity’. But she sure loves acting.

She is your average teen - describing everything she sees in a very elaborate manner, is just a little pissed because she needs to take care of her little sister, Olivia, when she should be rehearsing for the junior high’s school musical (in which, unfortunately, her worst enemy, Amber, has also taken part), who has a really annoying but just-who-every-girl-wants best friend, and who has a band-owning brother (this guy keeps changing their band name)

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Excerpt –

Chorus was definitely the high point of Charlie’s day. She liked a lot of her classes, sure. They were interesting and usually painless. But chorus was actually fun. There were no tricky questions or ten-page papers to write, no competition on the highest score for some quiz, nobody swearing they never studied when they always got straight A’s. Just a roomful of voices. It was the one period where Charlie could relax and feel like she belonged.

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See? Doesn’t it seem like she LIVES for singing and drama? Probably not because there is someone else too, whom she lives for. Kyle. And he gets the lead role in the school musical.

She does not lose hope when she messes up her rehearsals, for which her friend, Nicole, and her had been practicing for a long time now.

She does not lose hope when she doesn’t get the role that she wanted. Being a squirrel wasn’t that bad after all.

But in the end, on the day of the musical, when the curtains lift, the spotlight falls on something no one had expected.. Especially Charlie.

Just one spoiler-  Charlie receives a rose from someone at the end of her school's musical, and it surely isn't Kyle.

Brownie points- 4.5 out of 5 Brownies. The story had a direction - and a really clear one, actually - but it wasn't as I had expected it to be. The ending of the book isn't quite abrupt, so that's fine, because I find abrupt endings extremely horrifying. Like, for example,  how are WE supposed to know what happened to him after he jumped in the well? Did he find the treasure? Or did he just DIE?

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Second one! (After seven WHOLE days, but I did say that I'd be posting only once in a week, didn't I?)

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