Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Title: Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Author: Judy Blume

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Summary: Sally was sitting in the living room, scratching at her scab from when she fell off her bike the week before. All of the adults were talking but she couldn’t make out everything they were saying. She knew it was about her brother, Douglas, and her father was at the hospital with him. Aunt Bette took Sally upstairs to get her ready for bed because her mother was too worried about Douglas to have Sally stay downstairs. Douglas had dislocated his elbow because he fell when he was playing a game with his friends. Before this had happened, Sally and Douglas were talking about a strange man from Union Woods, where they weren’t supposed to play. He was just strange. One day, Sally was walking in Union Woods picking flowers and she notices that someone is following her. The man who was behind her had a long shaggy gray beard. He came closer and closer and scooped her up and carried her deeper into Union Woods. He tied her to a tree, tightly, but forgot to tie the end of the rope. Sally wiggled out and ran to police headquarters and tells them the story. They caught him. A Hollywood producer deiced to make Sally’s story into a movie but he couldn’t find the right girl to play the lead role, so he decides to have Sally play herself. At some point that night, Douglas came back from the hospital, and his clothes were soaking wet from falling into the brook. He got nephritis, a kidney disease. He was very sick. Sally and her best friend, Christine, were playing together after school and it was a detective game. Sally still couldn’t get too close to her brother, but he was finally feeling better so the family made plans to rent a house at Bradley Beach for the summer. Soon enough, Douglas was sick all over again and they had to cancel their vacation. In August, Sally went to a day camp at the Y and Douglas was well again. Sally’s mom and dad planned a trip for just the two of them to go to Florida. Sally was upset when her mother told her that they were going to look for a house for the next winter because the doctor said it would be good for Douglas. The next day after school, Sally was playing with all of her friends-Christine, Betsy and Alice. Sally wanted to make up a story about concentration camps, but the girls didn’t want to play that. Sally decided to make up a story instead. She called it Sally Saves Lila. It took place during the war and Lila was almost killed in Europe but Sally saved her by safely taking her to her house and letting her share the room. That night, Sally was in the tub trying to keep cool and she was reminiscing about when she and Douglas would go in the tub together. That night, Sally spoke to her mother on the phone. She told Sally that they had found a place in Florida, but they didn’t sign the lease yet so she shouldn’t tell anyone. The next day, Sally told Christine and Christine told her mother, but Sally asked Christine not to tell anyone, so she was upset when she was confronted about moving by Mrs. Mackler. Before they left for Florida, Sally and Douglas went to their father’s office to get their teeth cleaned, because he was a dentist. On October 8^th, Sally had to say goodbye to her classmates to go to Florida with Douglas and her mother. She didn’t want to leave her dad but she knew she had too. Saying goodbye to him was the hardest. Sally had to fight to hold back the tears. They left on a Saturday morning. On the train, Sally wrote Christine a postcard. Sally met people on the train-a mother, Mrs. Williamson, and her two sons, Kevin and Kenneth. They were also going to Miami, but they were visiting the boy’s granny. Mrs. Williamson also had a baby girl, Loreen, who was eight months old. Later on, they ate dinner in the dining car and then went to the club car, where Sally and Douglas played checkers, and then it was time for bed. When Sally woke up, Mrs. Williamson wasn’t there, but she had told Sally that they were going to Miami. Sally asked her mother, and she said it was because they’re Negro and they can’t ride in the same car as white people. Sally thought it was unfair, but that’s the way it had to be. Finally, the conductor yelled that the next stop was Miami. They were there! Silently, Sally said she wanted to go home, but nobody heard her. When they got to their house at 1330 Pennsylvania Avenue, Sally wasn’t pleased. She said she missed her house in New Jersey because this one was boring. Her mother tried to make the best out of it for her, but it wasn’t working so well. Although Sally felt tired, she couldn’t sleep at all. She and Douglas shared a room, but she missed her father. Two days later, Sally got ready for school, which was very close to the new house. When she asked her mother how she looked, her mom told her she looked like Esther Williams, who was Sally’s favorite actor. Sally’s school was called Central Beach Elementary School. It was big, a lot bigger than Sally’s old school. Sally’s teacher’s name for the fifth grade was Miss Swetnick. Sally had to go for a routine checkup at the nurse, who told her she didn’t eat much and she wasn’t tall, either. Sally did an eye check as well. While the nurse was checking her hair, she found lice eggs and said she couldn’t admit Sally to school with them. Sally’s mom was outraged and very surprised. Since they had to be sent home, Sally went into the bathroom and examined her hair herself. Douglas said she had cooties. Sally wrote her dad a letter telling him what had happened at school that day, and she told him how she had to have special ointment in her hair now. She told him that she hates it here, but that he shouldn’t feel too bad because it wasn’t his fault. Two days later, Sally was admitted to Miss Swetnick’s fifth grade class because the nurse didn’t find anything in her hair. She went into the classroom to see old desks stuck to the floor and in rows, each with an ink well in the corner. Everyone was wearing sandals, either white or gold, with no socks. Sally asked to be excused from the class right away and she was allowed. She went to the bathroom and took her socks off, so she could look like everyone else. Sally went back into the class and they were working on a project on ancient Egypt, so since Sally liked to draw, she helped that group. The class sang to her to make her feel welcome. As Sally was painted, a chubby girl leaned over and said “I don’t like you. Get it?” Sally said she didn’t like her either, because she didn’t know what else she was supposed to say. That girls name was Harriet Goodman. She found out from another girl in her class, Barbara Ash. Barbara asked Sally to go to lunch with her, so she did. It was spaghetti, but Sally didn’t like that. When they got to the table, Sally was warned about Mrs. Walker, their table monitor for the month. She came over and told Sally the rules. Sally ran all the way home that day because she needed to use the bathroom so badly, but by the time she got home, it was already too late. She told her mother that she was never going back. The only good news of the day was meeting Barbara, because she seemed like a nice girl. In their section, there were two other apartments. Next door to Sally lived the Daniels. They were a very religious family. Across the hall, lived the Rubins. They were “winter people.” They had two daughters, one in sixth grade and one in second. Sally played with one of them after school sometimes. Her name was Andrea. The Rubins also had a white cat, named Omar. Ten days after Sally had moved to Miami, her bike came and she and Andrea went riding for an hour to Flamingo Park, which is where the Pittsburgh Pirates play in the winter! While riding on the bike path, a man who was sitting on the bench asked the girls if they wanted candy. Sally knew better and took a good look at him to describe to the place. In the end, Andrea said he lived in their building and his name was Mr. Zavodsky. That night, Sally couldn’t sleep so she needed a story. This one was called Sally F. Meets Adolf H. This took place during the war, and Sally was caught by Hitler in a round-up of Jewish people in New Jersey. Hitler threatened to cut her hair off, and he did. He burned her toes and cut her with a knife, but then she ruined his carpet and he was upset. Saturday morning, Sally and her family walked to the beach on 15^th Street with the Rubins. They packed lunch and chairs, towels and suntan lotion and bathing suits. While they were at the beach, Andrea tried teaching Sally gymnastics, and suddenly, Barbara came! She had to be home by noon so she left shortly after, but Andrea didn’t like her because she thought she was stupid! Andrea told Sally that her sister, Linda, gets away with anything because she had polio and almost died. Sally shred her story about Douglas. They started talking about their fathers, and how they were both coming to Miami for Thanksgiving, but Andrea didn’t miss her dad. She rarely saw him at home because he was too busy. Sally wrote her dad another letter, telling him all about the beach and how they are catching mice at home. Next, she wrote to Mr. Zavodsky. This letter wasn’t pleasant, for she told him that people hate him. She said she might mail it to him the next day. Before she knew it, Sally got a letter from her dad! He told her he saw Christine, who asked for her address to write her also, and he said he missed her and couldn’t wait for Thanksgiving. Sally wrote back to her father telling him about all of her friends; Shelby, who lived by her apartment, Andrea and Barbara. The next week was Halloween, and Sally told her dad that she was dressing up as a peanut girl. Sunday morning, Sally, Douglas and mom went down to the lobby, waiting for dad’s call. Sally talked his ear off, telling him all about the parade. The lights went off while they were there. Douglas tried taking the phone away from her but she wouldn’t let him. Douglas spoke to him for a minute and then he gave the phone to his mother, who talked to her husband in private. Sally and Douglas took a walk by the pool, and who was there? Mr. Zavodsky was standing there and asked Sally if she wanted candy, again. Again, she said no. Sally went home to ask her mom if she knew Mr. Zavodsky, and she didn’t. Sally told her about the two candy incidents, and while she was talking, her mom ran to the bathroom, saying “what am I going to do?” but Sally didn’t know what she was talking about. Shelby came over to Sally’s apartment one day, and they played marbles. Then, mom took Sally and Douglas to the movies to see The Farmer’s Daughter, and after the movies all the time, they went to Herschel’s Sweet Shoppe, where he always got Sally’s sundae correct: a scoop of vanilla, a scoop of chocolate, a lot of hot fudge, a pile of whipped cream and a dash of cherry juice. At school, Miss Swetnick was dictating a poem to the class and they had to write it in their best handwriting. When she was finished, Sally had ink all over her hands and the back of her dress. The boy sitting behind her, Peter admitted to dipping her braid in the ink! He had to stay after school, which wasn’t anything new to him. After school, Sally went to Barbara’s house. Barbara told Sally that Peter wouldn’t have dipped her hair in the ink unless he liked her. At home, Sally was making her father a birthday card because he was turning forty-two. Her mother was sitting there while she was making it and suddenly ran to the bathroom. Douglas told Sally that both of their uncles passed away when they were forty-two and he said that’s why mom ran to the bathroom, but Sally was unsure. Douglas went out and wouldn’t let Sally go with him. Before Sally went to bed, she prayed to God that her father make it through the year, and then she drifted off to sleep. She had a dream that Miss Kay died and she was at the funeral in the rain. The next morning, Sally told everyone of her dream. Ma Fanny said when you dream that someone dies, it means they’re going to get married, and if they’re already married, it means they’re going to stay happily married for years. Sally got a letter from Christine, who now calls herself Chrissy. She told Sally that they are still best friends, but until Sally comes home, Chrissy is pretending that Joan is. Chrissy also told Sally that Alice pulled down her pants that day at school in the cloakroom. After school, Sally and her friends were playing hide and seek when suddenly, Mr. Zavodsky appeared. They told him they were in the middle of the game, and he walked away. Sally wrote to him again, saying she knew he was in disguise and to “watch it.” The next day, Sally and Andrea got into a conversation about kissing, and Andrea was discussing “Latin lovers,” but Sally was unsure of where “Latin” was so she brought it up at super that night. Everyone kind of brushed her off. Mom went in the shower, and Sally heard her singing. She hadn’t heard her mom that happy in a while. That night, very late, their dad’s plane was expected to land in Miami. When Sally and Douglas were going to sleep, Sally wished that the plane would come in earlier so they wouldn’t have to stay at a hotel. Douglas told Sally they were staying at a hotel to “do it,” but she didn’t understand that. She thought it meant just kissing and she didn’t know why they couldn’t kiss in the house. It was finally Thanksgiving and dad was there! Sally was so happy to see him! They sat down for Thanksgiving dinner around four o’clock. The next night, Sally’s parents were going to a night-club with someone named Wiskoff, who her father met on the plane. That night, Sally fell asleep quickly and had a dream. It was about her, as her cousin, Lila, who died in the concentration camps. She played Lila and Mr. Zavodsky played Hitler. Sally awoke to her parents. She was quiet, but saw her dad holding her mom up, while mom wore one shoe and carried the other. Dad said she had too much champagne. The next night, Sally, Douglas, and their parents went out to dinner with the Wiskoff’s. Mom didn’t want to go. Mr. Wiskoff’s wife, Vicki, was very high maintenance. When she got up to go to the bathroom, everyone in the restaurant stared at her. Sally joined her because she knew Douglas would be jealous. Vicki showed Sally how to wash diamonds and they talked. Vicki said her and Ted were together but she never said they were married. She did tell Sally that he was very important in New York, where he’s from and that she should remember who she’s having dinner with. That night, Sally told her mother that she liked having her as a mom more than she would like to have Vicki as her mother. When her father left to go back home, she wrote him immediately, telling him how much she had missed him already. Sally went to the pool that day with Andrea and her cat, Omar. Suddenly, Mrs. Richter came running out screaming. She wouldn’t tell anyone what was wrong, but she blamed everything on the cat. When the girls were walking home, Andrea decided she wanted to buy orange juice after they stopped at the Five and Dime to buy a blue collar for Omar. Sally just wanted a drink of water from the water fountain. She took a drink and was stopped by an older woman. This woman told Sally that “her” water fountain was on the other side, marked White. She drank from the fountain marked Colored. Sally and Andrea didn’t know there were two different water fountains. When they got home, Sally wrote her dad asking many questions about “Colored” people and why they weren’t allowed to take a drink from the same place or sit by each other on the buses. The next day, Sally was walking home from school with Andrea and Shelby. Shelby went to her house and Andrea told Sally a secret-she was in love with a boy, who she called Georgia Blue Eyes and he was playing ball at Flamingo Park that afternoon, so the girls rode their bicycles there. They rode around and saw Mr. Zavodsky, who gave Andrea candy again. Once again, Sally didn’t take any. She went home and at breakfast the next morning, she asked her mom about Hitler, because Andrea told her that he was a bad person. Thoughts were put into Sally’s head that morning, because nobody truly knew where Hitler was. Now, it was Hanukkah and Sally’s dad was coming in just two more weeks. Suddenly, Sally felt a sharp pain in her leg. Something was there. When she tried to get it away, she felt the same pain in her hand and her wrist. Finally, a lifeguard came, but everything went black for Sally. When she opened her eyes, she was on the beach, wrapped in a blanket. Mom was there, along with Ma Fanny and Douglas. Sally got bit by a Man O’ War. She went home and sat in the bathtub because that’s what the Board of Health said to do. That night, they lit the first Hanukkah candle. This accident brought Douglas and Sally much closer. That night, Douglas painted an egg for Sally. It was supposed to be Margaret O’Brien with feet like ballet shoes. The next day, Sally’s mom didn’t let her go to school, but Sally insisted she go. Her mother told her no but gave her a Hanukkah present instead. She got a Mickey Mouse watch with a red patent leather strap. Sally was so happy. That day, she rested. Two weeks later, dad came back! They joined the Seagull Pool Club, but “not” because of what had happened at the beach. The first day at the pool, Sally was there with Shelby, when someone swam into Sally by accident. It was Georgia Blue Eyes, and Sally accidently told Shelby the secret! When she saw Andrea, she didn’t say anything. At dinner that night, Sally’s parents were fighting because her dad wanted to go to Cuba for the weekend with his new friends, but mom didn’t want to go. She said she’d think about it. Every day that week, Sally went to the Seagull Pool Club, and one day, Georgia Blue Eyes talked to him. Shelby and Barbara agreed that he was cute and they would let him kiss them any day. Mom wound up going to Cuba with dad and they had a great time. On New Year’s Eve, they went to the Orange Bowl Parade with the Wiskoff’s. Big Ted took Sally to his car after the parade and gave her a present. It was a baton and she had been wanting one for a while. They said they hoped to see her in the Orange Bowl Parade one day. On January 2^nd, dad went back to New Jersey. On the third, Sally had to go back to school. That morning, she couldn’t find her library book, but she knew she needed to find it before she went to school; otherwise she would be in trouble. Her mom found the book in the pantry, but Sally couldn’t seem to remember why it was there. Sally ran to school, but she got there just after the second bell rang. At home, that means she would have to go to the office. Just the thought of that made her want to throw up. She stood outside of her classroom, and Miss Swetnick told her to come in. She didn’t seem to mind, for this was Sally’s first time being late and she had a “good” enough reason. Miss Swetnick had just announced to the class that she was engaged to be married. That afternoon, Sally and Barbara saw Douglas walking home with a girl, but they were confused because he really didn’t have many friends. Douglas said her name was Darlene, but he didn’t want to continue answering questions for Sally. Miss Swetnick was engaged to Peter’s brother, but Peter continuously got in trouble at school. Their honeymoon was going to be to Cuba, and Sally said her mother said they were famous for a drink called Crème de Cacao, which had cocoa, whiskey and cream in it. The girls tried to make it at Barbara’s house. They didn’t like it, so they had grape juice instead. Barbara told Sally that every Saturday night, her mother gets drunk, but she said it was a secret. She said her mom gets drunk until she passes out. Sally told Barbara about how she was scared that her father was going to die that year because he was forty-two years old. Barbara thought it was scary and Sally told her how she prays for him every night. Sally came down with Virus X, which was going around. Dr. Spear came to the house to check her out and he said that in three days, she’d be good as new. Her mother was worrying about Douglas, but the doctor told her she was worrying too much. On Sally’s third day home, Andrea woke up with Virus X also. That day, there was a knock at Sally’s door and it was the telephone company with their new phone, ready to be installed. The guy installed it and told the family that it was a four-party line. Sally’s mom wasn’t thrilled, but everything would work out fine. Sally spoke to Barbara on the phone, who told her information about Darlene. She said Darlene’s dad is a movie producer and they’re rich, but she isn’t popular at school. Before Sally could ask about what work she had missed, Barbara hung up. Sally pick up to call her back, not realizing she could hear other people’s conversations if they were using the phone. It was Bubbles and she was talking to a boy about how he couldn’t think of anything else but her. Next, Sally’s mom called their dad. Sally and Douglas talked and then mom got on, so Douglas automatically got up and walked away. Mom tried to tell Sally to go play or go to the bathroom, but she didn’t have to go. Mom wanted to talk to dad in private. The next day, Sally went back to school and met a new girl, named Jackie. She had a blood disease and almost died in the hospital; she was there for three months. After school, Sally and Shelby went riding to the park to see Georgia Blue Eyes play ball again. Shelby began riding with no hands and she fell off her bike, bleeding from her knees and one of her elbows. Sally’s mom told her to be home no later than five o’clock, and it was already two minutes to five. Sally rode home and told Shelby not to move. She got her mom, who was surprised she left her friend in the park. On her way home, she saw Mr. Zavodsky, but he didn’t notice her. Sally and her mom went back to the park, but couldn’t find Shelby. They went to Shelby’s house, and spoke to her grandmother, and Shelby was just fine. Sally apologized for leaving her in the park alone after she had fallen. On Saturday morning, Sally and Andrea had ballet class. Before they were dismissed, their teacher, Miss Beverly, announced a contest sponsored by a shoe store that had Margaret O’Brien’s ballet slippers in there! Whoever fit into the slippers the best, got to wear them, and have lunch with her. As Sally went home to tell everyone about the contest, a bird made on her! Ma Fanny told her she was going to have good luck for a year, which Sally appreciated. Sally and Andrea were waiting on line at the shoe store for thirty five minutes and it was finally their turn. Andrea went in first, but the man said the shoe was too small on her. Sally went next and the man said the shoe was too wide for her narrow foot. When Sally went home, she was so upset. Douglas had just come home with Chinese food for dinner, and when mom opened the chow Mein, there was a cockroach on top. The next day, Sally wrote another letter to her dad. She also began getting letters from Peter in school, who seemed to like a girl, named Jackie. Sally found herself daydreaming about kissing Peter and not Georgia Blue Eyes. Sally pretended to write a letter to the police about Mr. Zavodsky as well, but interrupting, Andrea knocked on the door because she wanted to play Potsy. The following Friday morning, Sally wasn’t feeling well. She had a stomach ache from eating too many pickles and too much bologna, which her mom warned her not too. Mom and Ma Fanny went to a meeting and someone watched Sally for them. Sally made up a story while she was lying down. This one was called Esther Williams find a Sister. Then, Sally heard the phone ring, but it wasn’t for her. She picked it up anyways, and to her luck, it was Mr. Zavodsky! Precious, who was watching Sally, asked why she listened to other peoples conversations. Sally said she liked too, and Precious said she wouldn’t tell on Sally as long as Sally didn’t tell that Precious was going to take a nap. Sally agreed. On the phone, Sally heard that Mr. Zavodsky’s friend, Simon, was coming to his house around eight. She had to see him! She asked her mother, but her mom said no because she had stayed home from school that day. She wrote another letter to him and planned on putting it in his mailbox on the way to the pool the next day, but the Rubins had joined the pool club and they were all walking over together, so she would surely be noticed. Sally, Andrea and Shelby all went in the pool, when they were suddenly surrounded by four boys, and one of them was Georgia Blue Eyes. He untied Andrea’s bathing suit, but luckily, it was tied in two places. The lifeguard blew his whistle and the boys swam off laughing. The girls ran into the changing room, and Andrea told Sally she hated her because she didn’t tell her that Georgia Blue Eyes belonged to the pool club. Sally tried to play it off, but it didn’t work. The next day, Sally got a letter from her dad and from Christine. Hank, Peter’s brother, and Miss Swetnick had rented an apartment right next to Sally’s and one night, she went over to help them paint. Sally asked Hank if Peter had ever talked about his school friends, and Hank said that Peter talks about Sally, not knowing that this was Sally. Sally had to walk to dance class alone the next day because Andrea was still mad at her. On the way home, both of the girls saw Omar at almost the same time. He was lying in the middle of the street. Andrea just knew he was dead. Sally tried to comfort her, but Andrea was completely closed off, saying that nobody understood how much she loved Omar. At home, the phone rang and it was for them-one long ring and two short ones after. It was Bette. At that moment, Mrs. Freedman thought something bad happened to her husband, but Bette was calling to say she was pregnant! Last time she was pregnant, she lost the baby after two months. Sally wrote a letter to her Aunt Bette congratulating her. When she went into her room, she saw something on her bed from her mother that said don’t show this to Douglas. Andrea refused to leave her room. Her mom tried everything. Mrs. Freedman suggested getting her something to love, like a new cat, and they both agreed that was a great idea. Sally wanted to be the one to give Andrea the cat, even after how she was treated that week. When Sally went to Andrea, Andrea said she would be her friend again. Sally showed her the cat, and Andrea did not want anything to do with it. Sally wanted to keep it for herself. After dinner that night, Andrea came to the house to see the kitten just one more time. Andrea named the cat Margaret O’Brien the Second, even though it was a boy. The girls also found out that Bubbles was pregnant. At school, there was a contest for who had the best posture. Barbara nominated Sally, so Sally and a few other students in the class had to stand out in the hallway. When Miss Swetnick invited them back in, Sally’s name wasn’t on the board. Barbara said she got six votes, but she came in third place. Sally was disappointed, but she had to hide it. When she got home, she saw Mr. Zavodsky and his friend, she thinks, Simon, sitting on the porch. She wrote him another letter but she didn’t send this one either. Sally’s dad made some money and came down to Miami for a five day vacation in March and then he came down again for Easter. At dinner, Sally’s dad announced that he was going to take the kids and one of each of their friends on a ride over Miami on the Goodyear blimp. Mom was not thrilled, and upset, she ran for the bathroom. Douglas planned on taking Darlene and Sally was going to call Barbara. Before Sally could call, her dad took a walk with her and explained to her why her mother was so worried. He told her that both of his brothers died when they were forty-two. Sally got really quiet and began to cry. She couldn’t sleep that night. Before they took off the next day, as they were sitting down on the blimp, Barbara told Sally she believed in angels and life after death, and Sally definitely agreed. They took the ride, and once they landed, Barbara said she didn’t believe in angels after all and “once you’re dead, you’re dead.” The next day, Douglas went to Darlene’s house for dinner and Sally played statue outside with Barbara. Miss Swetnick was getting married the next day, and Barbara had a plan for Sally to kiss Peter outside of the temple since the girls weren’t invited to the wedding. The next day, they stood outside of Temple Beth-El, and waited to Peter to come out. When they finally saw him, Barbara told him that Sally had something to give him, but she could only give it to him in private, so the three of them went in private by the trees. Sally leaned in and kissed Peter in honor of Hank’s wedding. Peter leaned over and kissed Sally back. When they were going home, there was an ambulance outside of the house and Sally knew it was her father…but it wasn’t. Mr. Zavodsky had a heart attack and died on the stairs. Sally went inside and wrote a letter to her best friend back home, Chrissy, telling her that they were coming back to New Jersey but they were taking the scenic route. Douglas told Sally that the reason he got hurt in the first place was because he fell when some guy was chasing him. Sally told Douglas she kissed Peter on the lips. Before she was done packing to go back home, Sally held onto her Margaret O’Brien doll and wrote just one more story. She called this one, Margaret O’Brien Meets the Crazy One.

Characters: Sally, Sally’s father, Sally’s mother, Douglas-brother, Uncle Jack, Ma Fanny, Aunt Bette, Christine, Mrs. Mackler, Betsy, Alice, Omar, Darlene, Peter, Shelby, Andrea, Georgia Blue Eyes,

Plot: Sally has a dramatic life and tries to nitpick at everything that happens. Once she moves to Miami because of her brother, things change, sometimes for the worse and sometimes for the better, but whenever something happens, it happens big!

Theme: Sally’s life is a show in itself

Setting: Miami

Opinion: This book was a little long, but I did enjoy reading it. It showed that everyone does have a life like a Broadway show and each individual person goes through different things and faces different obstacles. It tells you to enjoy life every day, because one day, things have potential to change for the complete worse and you have to cherish every day you have that you’re alive. An example of this is Mr. Zavodsky and Sally’s father. Her dad was forty two, which is when both of his brothers had passed away and Mr. Zavodsky wasn’t going to the doctor as many times as he should have and he died the next day. Overall, I thought this had a good storyline and thought it was a good book to read.