1112Whirligig

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//__WHIRLIGIG __// By: Abby Steinbrecher Whirligig is a story with an excellent twist. The author is Paul Fleischman. The cover illustration is made by Stefano Vitale. The cover was printed in the United States. This is a book I recommend reading!

The author explained the characters really well. Brent is a teenager who hates the hours before a party. Brianna is a teenager who is embarrassed to be seen with Brent and humiliates him at the party. Chaz is a teenager who is hosting the party and is popular and everybody likes him. Jonathan is one of Brent’s friends. Brent has had a crush on Brianna for a long time.

The setting I loved because the author used a bunch of different places. One place is in Chicago. Another is in Weeksboro, Maine. There’s a bunch, but also in Miami, Florida and etc.

The theme of the book is excellent! It is about a boy who gets humiliated at the party Chaz hosts. He tries to kill himself but instead he kills another girl in a car crash. So he goes and finds her mom and her mom asks him to make Whirligigs. Whirligigs are things that help you see the past. All you have to do is hold it up in the air. The girl’s mother believes that if he spreads the joy of the Whirligigs, he can save her spirit. The author used a lot of similes and figurative language.

The plot has an amazing twist! The problem is Brianna says no and humiliates him at the party and tells him to back off. The climax is he Brent gets so mad he tries to commit suicide. The rising action is when Brent accidently kills a different girl. The resolution is when Brent comes clean to Lea’s mother and tells her what he did to Lea. So Lea’s mother tells Brent to make Whirligigs so that way he can save Lea’s spirit.

As you can see this is an excellent book to read. I enjoyed it so much! I hope that you will too.