Absolutely+Normal+Chaos



Genre: Realistic Fiction  

Characters: The book 'Absolutely Normal Chaos' by Sheron Creech is about a girl called Mary Lou Finney, a thirteen year old who has a huge crush on a boy named Alex Cheevy for a really long time. Carl Ray is a seventeen year old boy that is very quite. Mr. Furtz turns out to be his real father. Beth Ann is a fourteen year old girl who is boy crazy. Maggie is a seventeen year old and Mary's bratty elder sister.  

Summary: This book is about a girl named Mary Lou Finney who is on summer vacation and she has to write in her journal everyday and give it in to her new teacher at the beginning of the school year.She thinks she doesn't know how to write in a journal but she does. Her cousin Carl Ray comes over to her house to stay for the summer. She thinks he is wierd because he doesn't talk. He just nods his head. Mary also falls in love with Alex Cheevy whom she thought was upstuck. The conflict in this story is that CarlRay is acting strange and their neighbor Mr.Furtz has died. Carl Ray gets a phone call that someone has lef him alot of money but Carl doesn't know who. Now everything is getting wierd. Carl's mom tell Mary not to tell Carl's siblings that he got money from a stranger and now everyhting is uptight. Nobody is telling Mary what is going on.    Review: I think this book is really good because it talks about a teenager who is having problems and she has a family who is helping her through this as well as she is helping them. The book is light hearted but somewhere in the middle it gets a little kiddish. I would recommend this book to girls because the story is about a girl's journal. The people who would enjoy this book the most are people ages eleven through fourteen.  