Book Title: The Boy Next Door
Author: Lauren Dower
First Copy Right Date: October 2006
TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction etc.

The general plot is the girl Teryn knowing the boy Jeff for 11 years of her life. At the beginning of the story she makes it seem like they don't like each other as friends because he is always saying means things to her and calling her names, but then you start reading the book you get to notice that they are really good friends and that is their way of playing around. The overall theme of the story is that at the beginning is summer and they love to hang out and play around. But one day her and her friends go to the pool and star talking about boys and then they ask her (Teryn) who she likes, her answer was simple as ever, she said (Nobody). That's when her friends start saying you should go out with Jeff (her guy best friend). The thought of her hearing this horrifies her, yet she doesn't say anything at all. Then way back at the end of the story she starts realizing she might have some feelings for her FRIEND Jeff.



The story is told by the girl, which obviously makes her the narrator. Anyway I think the whole point of the book is to make people think that girls and boys cant be best friends. But who knows maybe they can maybe the cant. Maybe the author might want to confuse the audience by making them think that just because the book starts with them being friends then people are going to think that at the end they end up being together. Well they don't, at the end of the book her last words were; Jeff is my friend. F- R-I-E-N-D. I don't like boys "that" way. Besides, all that matters at this exact moment is getting hooked up to Jeff's brand-new video game and destroying every last one of his killer robots. That's my plan. And I'm sticking to it. Until, of course, the butterflies come back again. The intended audience is definitely "US' the "TEENS". The genre of this book I think it is part of many things for example: romance, drama, mystery etc. The books fits into all of this because it has every single one of those things in probably every chapter. The reason the author kept me interested in this book was because I love books that have a little bit of something. I think the author style is effective for the audience because the book is FOR teens and the book is ABOUT teens.



The book didn't affect me at all. I just thought that it was interesting and fun to read. I did not change any ideas that I held because of it. It fits in with what I thought because when I saw the book I thought it was going to be something I liked and when I did read it and finished it, I was right. Yes it did bring up memories from other books called dork diaries.
In my opinion I thought he book was really good. Its about many things I am interested in. For example the girl and the boy being really good friends, knowing each other since they were born. Yet her friends thought they were perfect for each other. My recommendations for this book is I think people should give it a chance. It is very educational. It also lets teens know what might happen when you have gotten to middle school and that no matter what you have to keep going.

MELISSA CRUZ
PERIOD 4TH
12/14/13
**** 4/5