Define Normal
by Julie Anne PetersReview by Megan Zhu
This book Define “Normal” takes place in or started in a peer counsel meeting. Antonia was a perfect student to all her teachers but she isn't. Back at home, she has take care of her two wild brothers and ‘lot of problems' mother, also her father left them. Life wasn't that perfect at in her point of view. She the only reason she agree to be a peer counselor because she wanted complete the thing for school. She was the counselor for Jasmine or Jazz for the character was often called. Jazz look like a gangster, gothic, or dark girl (what I like to call her, I know these words don't sound that good but I like to use it) and total out of control. Antonia think this was freaky, insane, and unbelievable to do; counsel this…crazy person. But later on, when the counsel goes on…things change and so on… Jazz's friendship with Antonia finally made her accept the fact that she can't handle her family and she really need help with it. And Antonia helps Jazz with her part of life where everyone hated her and her relationship with her mother; especially her mother to be exact. Yeah… this is about it… the main point of this novel talk about the two person's problem in life.
About the Author
Julie Anne Peters was always the perfect daughter (cough). That's what she wanted her parents to believe. If they only knew… Her parents were divorced when she was in high school, which she was still trying to recover from. Do you ever recover? Their Bohemian mother loaded the caravan and moved them all to the city, where she finished school at Denver 's North High.
‘Valkyries rule.' – Julie
School was something she did well. Her first college degree was a B.A. in Elementary Education with a minor in French. Colorado Women's College offered an exchange program to Geneva, Switzerland, which she jumped at, and after a year abroad she now know what not to order in a French restaurant. Steak tartar tops the list. She believes steak tartar contributed to my subsequent all-veggie, all-the-time ideology.
She taught fifth grade for one year before the principal and she mutually agreed that teaching was not the profession for her. She was convinced of this sooner than she was. Okay, she got fired. How to overcome failure was the hardest lesson she has ever learned. She's not sure she has, or ever will, or even wants to. But she had become accustomed to eating regularly, so she figured she'd better find a new career. Returning to the one place where success was under her control (school), she earned a B.S. degree in Computer and Management Science. They don't call it a B.S. for nothing.
Comment
I really like the book because it is a very interesting book to read and it contain things that happen actually in real life. So it's like a book about some or a particular person in real life but it expresses it in the book. To me, this novel is actually like an autobiography about the author. If you read this book and reread this review about the author, you can see the similarity between the author and the characters she created.
I found this book on the shelf and picked for my SSR reading book because it is the most least thickest book I found on the shelf. I started reading this book during first period of the class, and as I read along, it started get interesting on the part where the two main characters are about to kill each other or starting a fight. So I continued reading for like and few hours or so. Then my mother almost killed me because I skipped an hour Chinese School just to finish reading this book. If you want to know what happens, READ THE BOOK! AND FIND OUT! DON'T EXCEPT ME TO TELL YOU!