Thursday, April 8, 2010

Justine Regan

Justine Regan
Confessions of a teen nanny
Victoria Ashton
Realistic fiction
Holiday
Finished



Just now in my book, Adrienne confronted Cameron about Brian. Cameron then showed Adrienne pictures of her drunk at last nights party and told her all the things that she could get Adrienne in trouble for. Adrienne had been set up. In order to keep her job as the Warner’s nanny, Adrienne must make sure that no one finds out about the things Cameron has against her- especially the party. Now Cameron is having Adrienne plan another party for her friends tonight. Adrienne and her best friend Liz spend all day setting up. At the party Adrienne finds Brian making out with Cameron. Adrienne is extremely upset, especially when all the guests leave her to clean up the mess at the end when they leave. This is when Adrienne realizes that Mrs. Warner’s jewelry is missing. Freaking out she calls security and later finds out that Cameron was the one that took it in the first place. Since it was Cameron that took the jewelry, Adrienne gets her job back.


I thought this book was really good. I love how everything was illustrated so well. The Warner's homes were talked about really elaboratly. This helped me picture what was going on much better than I could of if the detail weren't added. The characters all had completely different personalities. Each character in the book was completely different from the next character, they were polar opposites. This made the book much more interesting to read. I also liked that throughout the book there were several conflicts. It started with a few and then as the book went on more and more were added. This made it really interesting because, the characters had more to deal with as the book went on and more was happening.







The main theme was greed. The only reason that any of this bad stuff happened to Adrienne is because, she was greedy. When Cameron took her shopping and bought her tons of nice clothes, Adrienne had a lot of fun and really enjoyed it because, she doesn't get things like that often. Once ADrienne had a taste of the good life,she never wanted to leave or stop. Brian even tried to tell her that the materialistic things weren't worth it and that she should just be happy with what she has. Since she didn't listen, she ended up losing Brian and almost her friends and job.







My favorite character is Adrienne because, even though she did make a ton of mistakes, she is still a good person. Adrienne always tries to do the right thing, but somehow got sucked into making tons of mistakes throughout the book. Tis made it really fun to read because, no matter what Adrienne did, something was destined to go wrong. This makes me feel really bad for Adrienne because she is such a nice person.







My least favorite character is Mrs. Warner. This is because, Mrs. Warner is really unpredictable and just expects that people- especially Adrienne will drop everything they are doing to help her out. Mrs. Warner is always out really late regardless od tha fact that Adrienne is a kid and she has school the next day. Mrs. Warner is also completely out of it, not relizing that she can't let Cameron get anywhere near her jewlery, and to believe that Adrienne would have let them get stolen by someone on her watch.








I think this book ended exactly how I expected it to. I had a feeling all along that Cameron was eventually going to try to get Brian from Adrienne. I thought that Graydon would have been part of that plan though, and I'm not sure that he was. I'm suprized that Emma didn't just delete the pictures she took of Cameron kissing Graydon at the party. I thought Emma wanted to be Adrienne's friend, and Adrienne doesn't really like her since she didn't delete those. I'm really supprised that Brian fell for Cameron's wealth because, throughout the whole book he was telling Adrienne not to get wraped up in it.

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