The summer I turned pretty
By Jenny Han
Simon & Schuster books for young readers
New York ,London ,Toronto ,Sydney
2009

GENRE

• Fiction

SETTING

• Summer beach house
• 8:30 pm
• Happy
• Belly measures her life in summers. .
• Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.

POINT OF VIEW

• First person point of view
• The narrator is also a character in the story and refers to him/herself as I

MAIN CHARACTERS

• Belly
• Conrad
• Jeremiah
• Taylor
• Steven

IMPORTANT CHARACTERS

• Protagonist - Belly
• Antagonist - Steven

CONFLICT

• Belly try's to get Conrad's attention but he pays more to other girls
• Person vs person

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• Conrad & Belly goes to the carnival.
• Belly picks up Taylor at the airport.
• The drive to the beach-house.
• All the kids go to the movies.
• Everybody was going to Boston.

VOCABULARY

• Gesture- to express an idea or meaning
• Treaded- to go along
• Ballerina- a female ballet dancer
• Languid- slow and relaxed
• Hyprocrite- a person who indulges in hypocrisy. 

MY OPINION

• I would recommend this book because its a really good book and I love it.
• It also relates to my life when it talks about Belly's parents getting div