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Allie Byrd The Season By: Sarah Maclean Main Characters: Lady Alexandra Stafford (Alex)- She is 17 years old, she is strong willed, sharp-tongued, and absolutely hates dress fittings, she is way more interested in adventures than the romance that her mom wants her to find. She had Stafford eyes that were the color of the clearest emeralds. Alex’s best friends are Ella and Vivi, they have been bestfriends since they were all born. Lady Eleanor Redburn (Ella)- Best friend of Alex since birth, the oldest daughter of of the Earl and Countess of Marlborough, she had a petite frame and had delicate features, she had blue eyes and blond hair. Ella’s personality defied her porcelain looks and she preferred books to the lavish balls of the season. Lady Vivian Marwell (Vivi)- Best friend of Alex since birth, she is the only daughter of the Marquess of Langford, tall and slender, she had her fathers dark hair and violet eyes, she had a sharp mind and a strong will, and perfectl...

Brooke Baker In the Shadow of the Lamp By Susanne Dunlap Main Characters- Molly- This is who the story is all about. She gets fired from her job and finds a job as a nurse. Florence Nightingale- Lady who made nursing respectful and teaches Molly everything she needs to know. Will- Man who Molly falls in love with and becomes a soldier in the war to be with her. Emma- Molly’s best friend and who she stays with the whole story. Dr. Maclean- Other man Molly falls in love with and struggles to figure out which one to be with. Thomas- He is Emma’s boyfriend and also a soldier in the war. Main Conflict- Molly pretends to be a nurse during the Civil War and has to learn all the skills. While she is away from her home, she falls in love with two guys, Will and Dr. Maclean. She struggles to choose who she wants to be with throughout the whole story. Quotes- 'Every now and then a puff of white smoke would come from above Sevastopol, followed by a distant boom. Like f...

Lauren Jenkins Sharon White Honors world history 18 March 2018 The King’s Rose Main characters King Henry VIII he was the king during this time period Catherine Howard she was a teenager who the king found attractive Jane is one of the maids in King Henry’s castle Arthur is Henry’s brother who he despises Thomas is his father’s friends son who King Henry is close with Margaret becomes Catherine’s friend and is Henry’s sister Main Conflict The biggest conflict for King Henry is finding a women to marry and to have a son who will be able to takeover as king after he dies. Catherine does not see King Henry as someone to marry because she starts catching feeling for this close friend Thomas, however she knows if she tells Henry this he would kill her, literally. She must keep her love secret which becomes very difficult to hide and with all the people in the castle they start to become so suspicious and eventually question her however she doesn’...

The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli Main Characters The Smile follows the story of Elisabetta or Lisa (Mona Lisa) and her close family and friends. Readers are quickly introduced to her mother, her father, her best friend Silvia, and Silvia’s brother Christian. Later in the story, characters like Leonardo da Vinci, Lisa’s step mother Caterina and her sister Camilla, and the royal Medici family are made known. Main Conflict Lisa is a part of a noble family, and she is almost at the age where she will be betrothed. The family wants to throw her a party in Florence to find some potential suitors but sadly, on the way there, her mother was crushed underneath and horse and died. Lisa’s party was delayed, but soon after her mother's death, her father got remarried to a young woman named Caterina. Lisa was in complete denial; she absolutely hated her stepmother for no reason other than having lost her real mother. Before her mother died, Lisa met the renowned artist Leonardo da Vi...

Devin Stanley Mrs. White Honors World History 16 March, 2018 A Samurai Never Fears Death By Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler Main Characters- Seikei was formerly the son of a tea shop owner who was later adopted by Judge   to fulfill his dream in becoming a Samurai. Ojoji - He works at the Puppet Theater. He was falsely accused of Killing the Theater narrator Kamori for moving the Samisen that was used kill the narrator. Main Conflict -   The main conflict of the book was finding out who was the real murderer of the Puppet Narrator Kamori and the Headmaster Nishi. Seikei and Asako went to the Puppet Theater to watch a puppet play, but in the middle of the show they Seikei discovered that Kamori the narrator was dead. They discovered that he was strangled to death by a Samisen string. They came to the conclusion that who ever had a samisen with two strings was the murderer. They caught Ojoji moving the samisen and determined that he was the murder. Se...

Zack Reynolds, The Rapture of the Deep by L. A. Meyer Main Character's Jacky is the protagonist who is engaged to Jaimy. She is the captain of her ship named Nancy B. Jaimy is the guy who loves Jacky and helps her on her journey's across the seas. On the day of their wedding, Jackyy gets kidnapped by the British Naval Intelligence to work for the Crown. El Feo is the antagonist of this story. He is the first mate of the ship El Diablo Rojo who later becomes captain. He is the one who secretly plots a plan to steal the Nancy B. Main Conflicts The search for sunken Spanish gold off the coast of Havana and struggle of finding the gold is the main conflict. The conflicts between the British Naval Intelligence and Jacky’s personal life. Whenever something important is happening in her life, they force her to partake in missions. Take her wedding day for an example. Jacky was really furious with them for doing such a horrible thing to her on a day like that. Yet ...