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Life is Funny E. R. Frank Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers © 2002 |
Life is Funny is about a group of teenagers living today. This story mostly takes place at a playground with two girls whose names are China and Ebony. While at the playground, they meet another boy who they say isn’t dressed too decent. They were playing in the tire swing when he came over to talk to them and he told the girls that his name was Mickey. Then while they are still at the playground, there is a school on the playground and they hear a bell ring and the doors open and a bunch of daycare kids come running out. Ebony’s twin sisters, Mattie and Elaine, come up to her.
This book does not go by chapters; it goes by years. In each year, there is about 18 characters. For example, there is a year about a girl named Sonia whose brother told her that a man who jumped off the Statue of Liberty was Sarim. Sarim committed suicide by doing this. Sonia didn’t believe her brother until two weeks when by and Sarim never came home. Sonia’s religion is Muslim. She always tries to follow the rules that the Muslim’s do that her parents showed her.
I think that this is a believable story. To me the characters are likeable and interesting, except for Sarim. This book was a very good book to me because it talks about how teens live today and what they do today. I would recommend this to other high school students.
~ Heidi Huff, grade 12, Trumbull County Career and Technical Center