Grote bek & Lelijk wijf door Joyce Carol Oates

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Boek
Auteur
Joyce Carol Oates
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
2002
Pagina's
263
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels

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Grote bek & Lelijk wijf door Joyce Carol Oates
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This book is called Big Mouth & Ugly Girl and it is written by Joyce Carol Oates. The publisher is HarperTempest and it is written in 2001.

I chose this book because I ran out of time to choose a book and the cover looked nice.  

Plot

Ursula Riggs is a 15 year old girl that goes to school at Rocky River High. Ursula is not very pretty and she is very tall. She doesn't have that much friends and most of the "friends" she has don't talk to her or ignore her. Ursula calls herself Ugly Girl when she is doing sports or feels better than anyone else. And when she is Ugly Girl, she doesn't care what anyone has to say, is great at sports and she just walks out of classrooms whenever she feels like it. One day, Ursula loses a very important basketball game. Every thinks Ursula lost the game on purpose, even the coach. Ursula couldn't take all the attention anymore and quitted the basketball team. When one day she is at home watching tv she sees a news report about how a student at her school threatend to bomb the school. She doesn't really know that boy but she knows that he couldn't do it.
Matt Donaghy is a 15 year old boy that goes to the same school as Ursula. Matt is a top student, likes to make people laugh and goes to a lot of school clubs. One day in drama class he jokes about that if he wouldn't be chosen, he would blow up the school. Someone took that serious and called the police. The police just interrupts one of Matt's classes and takes him to the police departement. Matt has to prove that he isn't actually planning a bomb, but all his friends just abandom him. Later, Ursula helps him show the police that he actually isn't planning to bomb the school. 

Favourite and least favourite character

My favourite character is Ursula because she is very good at sports and doesn't take anything from anyone. She helps Matt even though she doesn't know him that well. My least favourite character must be Ursula's coach because she just screams at her team and makes everyone think that Ursula lost that game on purpose.

Good and bad things about the book

Good things about the book are that the chapters really aren't that long and that it actually describes very well what someone is feeling. What also is a great thing that when they send e-mails or papers or anything, they actually look like it was written by a teenager because most of the times an author uses all these weird slang words in their books that adults think teenagers use. Bad things about the book are that it is a big book and the book just randomly changes from doing something to thoughts. Like, when the person is about to get hit in the face by a ball or something the person randomly thinks about something that happened 2 years ago.

I really enjoyed this book, it was very nice to read and it had a very good plot. I highly recommend this book.

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