Choice Book Report - Quarter 1

We are SO Crashing your Bar Mitzvah!!

          I read the book: We are SO crashing your Bar Mitzvah!! By: Fiona Rosenbloom. The main character is Stacy Freidman. Stacy is thirteen years old and is in eighth grade. She has long curly brown hair. Stacy’s parents have just recently split and her dad is living with his new girlfriend named Delilah. Stacy lives with her mom who is still upset about the divorce and hasn’t completely moved on yet. She is hanging out with this guy named Alan but she is not sure if she likes him enough to be in a real relationship with him. Stacy and her brother Arthur are okay with it though. Stacy is still kind of upset about her parents split.

Stacy and her best friend Lydia are going to go to “First Night”. First Night is the night before school starts and all of the junior high kids meet at the lake in the sculpture garden of PepsiCo. Lydia and Stacy spend all day trying to find the perfect outfit. They try on all sorts of stuff: Converse high-tops, black footless leggings, a jean skirt, a green studded belt, a short kilt with a big safety pin, and they straighten their hair stick straight. They were told to wear this by a girl they met at camp named Lalia. She knows what is “in style”. Stacy is trying to be someone else. When they get back from camp her other friend Kelly has now befriended the mean girls in school called the Chicas.

At the First Night a guy comes named Eben. He is Kym’s cousin (Kym is the leader of the Chicas). Eben is inviting people to his Bar Mitzvah. Everybody in the school gets invited except for Lydia and Stacy. So they decide to crash his Bar Mitzvah. The Chicas and Kelly aren’t wearing what Lydia and Stacy are wearing instead they are wearing flowy tops, gauchos, and flats. So after the First Night Stacy and Lydia go to the mall and buy all new clothes to fit in. They want to be part of the Chicas.

Stacy is very insecure about herself and her ultimate goal is to become popular. She starts to tell lies about herself and how cool she is to impress the Chicas. Everything soon back fires and Kelly, Lydia, the Chicas, and the whole entire school don’t even want to be seen with her. Stacy has a moment of reconciliation and she realizes that she needs to be herself. She apologizes to everyone and then they all become friends again.

          I think that one of the themes for this book is stay true to yourself. You shouldn't care about what other people think. Stacy and Lydia follow with what is “in” in fashion and the clothes are definitely not their personality. They are just trying to fit in as best they can. They change their whole look, how they talk, and how they act just to become popular! One example is that after the First Night Stacy and Lydia realize that the Chicas are not wearing the same type of clothes they are wearing. They go and buy a whole new wardrobe just to fit in. Another example is when Stacy and Lydia arrive at the First Night they are riding their bikes. The next day they find out that no one is riding their bikes anymore so they have their moms drop them off.

Another theme is to not lie because it will come around back to you. No one likes a liar. Just be yourself and people will like you for who you are. Stacy and Lydia lie about how they are so cool now and how they know famous people when they really don't. As a result no one talks to them for a week. It took a lot to gain everyone's trust back.

 A third theme is to not betray your friends even if you get into a fight. Kelly and Stacy were best friends before summer, but after Kelly ditched Stacy and Lydia to be with the Chicas. Stacy and Lydia spy on Kelly and the Chicas one day and they over hear Kelly saying that Stacy and Lydia are stupid and that they are weird. Then everyone laughs. Kym made Kelly say those things otherwise she wouldn’t be able to be friends with the Chicas anymore.

My last theme is you have to learn to deal with change. Stacy does not want everything in her life to keep changing. She wants her family back with her Mom and Dad still married. She also wants her friends back the way they were with Lydia and Kelly as her best friends. Stacy soon realizes that things in life are always going to be changing and you have to learn to live with the changes. Sometimes the changes in your life turn out to be amazing things.  These are just some of the many themes for We are SO Crashing your Bar Mitzvah!!

Memoir 2

One cold winter day my dad said that he wanted to go look at dogs. My brother Logan went with him. They went to a trailer park and the place was loaded security cameras. The man said they had the cameras because a few days earlier someone had shot one of the man’s dogs! Logan and my dad went inside the trailer home and there were big dogs and puppies running around everywhere. There was dog poop and food scattered all around the floor. My dad thought he had stepped in some! The man said that Logan could pick out what ever dog he wanted. Logan picked the only one that was not running around. She was a chocolate lab puppy and had ocean blue eyes. My dad and brother left as fast as they could. My mom and I were at home thinking of names for a chocolate lab. We had decided on Coco or Tori. I called my dad and Logan picked up. I asked, “So have you decided on a name yet?”

            He said, “Yeah, I want to name her Chloe.” At least that is what I thought he said.

He really said, “ Yeah, I want to name it Cody.”

            I replied, “Ok,” and hung up the phone. My mom asked what he said.

            I responded, “ Her name is Chloe.”

           

            A few minutes later Dad and Logan came home. Logan yelled happily, “This is Cody!”

            “What!?!?” was all I said.

            “I said, this is Cody!” he yelled even louder.

            “I thought her name was Chloe. You do know that it is a girl right?”

            “Oh. I didn’t know that!”

            Our family decided on calling her Chloe but my mom still wanted to name her Coco. Chloe is a very energetic dog now. She is 2 years old and is still all puppy. Every once in awhile we will find a shoe that belongs to the neighbors. She is an amazing dog and my best friend.