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=__I am the Wallpaper__= by Mark Peter Hughes

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-Does Floey'sprivatelife.com ever shut down? Does Floey's Life ever return to normal? You will have to read this funny, intriguing novel to find out!
 * Summary**: __I am the Wallpaper__ by Mark Peter Hughes is a fun story about a 13 year old girl named Floey Packer, who is trying to invent a new, fabulous version of herself. Floey feels like the wallpaper because she is never really noticed for anything. She is stuck with her two cousins, Tish, who is 10, and Richard, who is 11, for a month during the summer while her aunt is in Alaska. Over the summer, Richard makes friends with a mean boy named Billy. Richard and Tish find Floey’s diary and Billy comes up with the idea to put it on the internet. They create a whole website about Floey, called Floey'sprivatelife.com. They also create a spy club where they spy on Floey from the across the street. She finds out about the website from her best friends, Wen and Azra and is furious.In the midst of all of this, Floey decides to die her hair wild violet, still trying to be a new Floey. Her friends and her family are surprised when they see her hair. She realizes that people are only noticing her because of reading her diary on the internet. Floey is upset that almost everyone has read her diary and after her first plan to stop the website did not work, she thinks of a new one. Floey scares Billy and his friends at the beach one night and Tish records it. Billy runs into them and he threatens to beat up Richard if they don’t give him the disk. Tish hands Billy a disk, but it is not the disk of Billy and his friends. It is a disk of Floey's ferret, Frank Sinatra; Floey had practiced recording earlier that night. After Billy goes home, Tish tells them that she gave him the other disk and they all laugh on the way home.


 * Rating**: I would give this book an 8.5 -- Although it is not my absolute favorite book, it is my second favorite!


 * The Author**: Mark Peter Hughes was born in Liverpool, England, but grew up in Barrington, Rhode Island with his mother and his two older sisters. As a teenager, he had many different jobs and was in a rock band. He left Rhode Island to attend the University of Rochester, where he earned a degree in engineering. He now lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with his wife and his three small children.


 * Oral Presentation**: Page #182-184 --I chose this passage because I think it tells you a lot about the book, including the main characters and the main conflict without giving the ending away.

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