The crazy one.......

   Becca

Becca can be very crazy

Or other days she will be very lazy

Sometimes she will hoot and holler 

And sometimes I have to stall her

At school she is laid back, and shy

Once we get home she'll make you laugh so hard, you cry

When she gets up in the morning, her hair might be frizzy

But that has nothing to do with her making me dizzy

Friends make you smile, and not have to worry

But when talking about Becca, you won't know what happens next in the story

This is a really true friend to me

And she is such a good friend, she can open me up with her key.

 By: Liana 

 

 

Roller Coasters Can Be The Best Ride Through Summer Break!

Authors Note: When you know something is going wrong with your brother's best friend, you know you will be involved. Crushes can get the best of people by showing off and things tat you might not appreaciate later on. When Bree crashes Jake's summer, Lexi's just gets better!


Being on break from school is always fun; summer break is my favorite. My friends and I always have a great time. Sometimes my parents take my sister and I on vacation, and we always have a blast. However sometimes, it may be a little different for some people. In the book “He’s With Me” by Tamara Summers, Tamara expresses her word choice incredibly wisely, which creates very good character interactions. Summer break is not always a breeze for everyone especially when your brother’s friend, is your crush.


When the school year is ending, Lexi gets really excited. She thinks all about what she is going to do with her brother, until she walks into the door of her bedroom and finds out by her mother that she is going to camp. Lexi’s interactions with her brother in this book are very distinct. The two of them are very close together, to the point where they do everything together- until she finds out that she has to go to camp without her brother. Tamara Summers must be really close to her sibling in order to write this well and how the two characters interact with one another. Feeling so miserably that she has to go to camp without her brother, and has no choice, something does cheer her up. That something would be a special someone- Jake. Jake is her brothers’ best friends, and her biggest crush. Knowing that he comes over every day she couldn’t wait to ask if he was going to camp, as well.


Even more excited than when she finds out that Jake is going to camp too, Jake has an issue. That issue would be that she gets to be Jake’s pretend girlfriend because his issue caused this. While I read this part in the book, I was thinking in my head that Tamara must be able to think very well, in order to compare/contrast characters. Tamara writes as if she is every single character in her book, which is amazing to me because if a person was talking in the book, and it didn’t say who was talking, I could immediately tell who was talking. If a author that does this, that means that this author, can really write a good book!


Being a pretend girlfriend is not the easiest thing to do, in the world. So, in Lexi’s position, she has to lie a lot- about everything, from how they met, and when they first kissed. This is all a part of being a pretend girlfriend. For the most part, Bree is not buying it at all. Bree is the girl who dresses in white everyday to show off her tan skin, she is the one who gets everything she wants, and this is just not her thing, not being able to date the guys she wants because he doesn’t want to date her. Lexi is coming up with excuses and more and more stories how things fell in place, and Jake is as well. Things seem as it is going perfect, until Lexi’s mother finds out. Oh no! Tamara must have been in this place, at some point in her life. I would be in so much trouble, but not in this case. She isn’t in one ounce of trouble. This is such a relief, so much of a relief to Lexi that she takes her dogs on a walk.


In one of Lexi’s and Jake’s so called stories, they say they met when she was walking her dogs. They come up with this romantic way Jake asking her out and it lies in perfect place. But all of a sudden something feels like something is repeating over. As if it is happening for real this time. It is! This books ends in the most perfect way. Tamara Summers makes things one of the most amazing words come to life as if I was there. It is like I can tell who is who, without mentioning names. In fact though, it is true, Jake is replaying the whole situation that was told in a fake story which is now true. Forever and ever, Lexi and Jake end up together, as if was meant to be!


Sometimes the most difficult things can become something that is not even hard. In Lexi’s situation, she has one of her biggest summer break roller coasters ever, turns in to the most romantic times of her life. Maybe something similar to this has happened to you. When your crush is your brother’s best friend, things can become like a roller coaster that only rides up and down through summer break.