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    What I Believe
    What I Believe
    What I Believe
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    What I Believe

    By Norma Fox Mazer

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    Vicki wishes she could solve her problems as easily as she can arrange words into a poem

    Vicki Marnet has two wonderful big brothers who are completely regular people. They like sports, chess, and the student senate, and are totally normal—unlike Vicky, who feels in her heart that she’s different. For one thing, she writes poetry for fun. She plays with sonnets, pantoums, sestinas—all kinds of stanzas and rhymes, anything to take her mind off what’s happening at home.
     
    Vicki’s dad lost his job, and since he can’t find another one, her family is moving to the city. They’re selling their big house, moving into a tiny apartment, and facing troubles that Vicki has never known before. Ashamed and slow to make friends at her new school, Vicki puts her thoughts down in verse as she makes a new place for herself—one that’s very much her very own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9781497650848
    What I Believe
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    Norma Fox Mazer

    Norma Fox Mazer, who lives in Montpelier, Vermont, has written nearly thirty novels and short-story collections for young adults. Her novels, including Missing Pieces, Out of Control, Girlhearts, and the Newbery Honor Book After the Rain, are critically acclaimed and popular among young readers for their portrayal of teens.

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    • 3/5
      This is a story told in lists, journal entries, poems, letters. Vicki Marnet is a writer, and her writing helps her to deal with the mess her family life has become. Her dad has lost his job, after working for the same company for 28 years. He's having a lot of trouble finding a job, and is depressed. Vicki's family has to sell their home in the suburbs and move to an apartment in the city, where her mother has found a receptionist job. It means switching schools, leaving friends, and selling off treasured belongings to help pay the bills -- and they don't have room for them in the apartment anyway. Vicki's brothers seem to handle the changes much better than anyone else, but they also don't stick around much to help out. When Vicki's dad disappears suddenly, they are forced to take in a woman who rents a room, and Vicki does something awful. If you make a really terrible mistake, how do you make up for it? How do you earn back the trust of your family? A timely story of hardships and choices. 7th grade and up.
    • 5/5
      Vicki loves to write. She shares her inner most feelings with us through her journal. We follow Vicki as she has to move to a new neighborhood because her father lost his job , start a new school, makes new friends and tries to adjust to all of the changes. Norma Fox Mazer wrote this story from the point of view of Vicki's journal. The story is told through, journal entries, poems, lists, and some narrative. This is a great book for young adults going through similar changes. This book would be an excellent example of a unique writing style to tell a story.

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