If you want to learn english grammar or grow your vocabulary then these resources will help you with your studies. Jamee wills is a new freshmen at bluford high who is failing algebra and her teachers, her parents and other people want her to be like her older sister darcy wills, whos a junior and works harder. Strut down the hallway,wearing the latest fads that dont staytheir beautiful. Select any person, even a minor character like londell or brisana, that you would like to read more about. You dont even know about it yet amberlynn exclaimed. Bobby wallace is one of the characters in the bluford high series. Most questions are basic text recall, but some superaccessible inference questions are included. The pretty, the colorful, and the ugly books youtube. As for breaking point, the publisher of the bluford books asked for a book in which a characters family gets evicted. This book follows jamee wills, the little sister of darcy wills, who has appeared in many titles including lost and found, a matter of trust, and until we meet again. Bluford series pretty ugly chapter 1 quiz by mooreklugh. A girl named jamee wilson is trying to get through her first year of high school with the pressure of having bad grades, becoming a cheerleader, having a boyfriend and the worst thing of all is having.
The meaning of pretty and ugly within the context of the phrase is not contradictory, but a different meaning of those two words is semantically contradictory, which seems to be enough to qualify under this definition for oxymoron. Westerfeld originally intended for uglies to be a trilogy. Cindy melton teaching resources teachers pay teachers. Write your idea for a new book about any character in the bluford series. Pretty ugly bluford series book 18 kindle edition by karyn langhorne folan author visit amazons karyn langhorne folan page.
This study guide contains questions from all 10 chapters of the bluford book pretty ugly by karyn langhorne folan. Download ebook the test bluford 17 peggy kern peggy. A multiple choice quiz, including page numbers, to engage readers in chapter 1 of the bluford series novel pretty ugly by karen langhorne folan. Physically smaller than his peers, darrell quickly becomes a target for tyray hobbs, the freshman class bully. In a dystopian society that values beauty above all else, tally youngblood faces a choice. There are 2 ways to read this incredible poem, both are so powerful. The bluford series is a widely read collection of contemporary american young adult novels set in the fictional innercity high school of bluford high in southern california.
In some cases, as with chronicles of narnia, disagreements about order necessitate the creation of more than one series. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Spoiler alertreading a book so boring will have you go crazy, my book pretty ugly will have you excited, sad, eager, and inspired. Prettyugly is the first book in the year ii bluford series. In the book pretty ugly, a girl by the name of angel was new to her school and wanted to try something different. Reviewed in the united states on december 31, 2012. The series was created and published by townsend press and was codistributed by scholastic. This is my first time making a book trailer so i hope you like it. Pretty ugly bluford series, number bluford high by karyn langhorne folan young cheerleader who is constanly being told that she needs to be like her sister darcy. Ugly is just another form of beauty,without ugly we would have much less,because even the ugliest thing has helped something. I wanted to write a book about cyber bullying and that was the inspiration for pretty ugly. Bobby is a troubled and abusive young man as he can get easily angry when the girl he is currently dating doesnt listen to him or wait for him. The trouble starts at cheerleading practice when vanessa begins teasing angel mccallister, a shy new girl at school. Now read the same words, but bottomup weve already rewritten it for you.
The authors bio a freshman at bluford high, jamee never expected vanesa pierce and her friends to go this far. Karyn langhorne folan our reaction karyn langhorne folan summary. Enter the name of the series to add the book to it. When the insults turn nasty, jamee tries to stop them. Jamee wills never expected vanessa pierce and her friends to go this far. Guessner had any ink left in her pen after she had made it. In lost and found he hit jamee wills in the face and in someone to love me, he. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read.
The trouble starts at cheerleading practice when vanessa begins teasing angel. All twentyone of the bluford series books are available in audiobook format. I wanted to find out what the modern day high school girl is reading so i picked this book up. The tale traces tyrays troubled home life, his desire to rebuild his. Pretty ugly is about bullying, sibling rivalry, and cheerleading, and is definitely geared toward the contemporary urban reader.
In the sentence in question pretty is not used as an adjective. Darrell mercer, a 9th grader at bluford high, is at the center of this story. Eighth grade lesson pretty ugly day four betterlesson. Darcy is what you can say top of the line everything about her is perfect. After eight and a half years and 323 pageants, miranda miller has become the ultimate stage mother. This fourth book is dedicated to everyone who wrote to me to reveal the.
Pretty ugly bluford series pretty ugly day two pretty ugly day one pretty ugly day two. I like to write about girls, so we picked vicky as the lead character for that story. The trouble begins at cheerleading practice when vanessa starts teasing angel mcallister, a shy new girl at bluford high. That means, the person telling the story isnt a character in the story but generally knows what. From the diseased man,to the fish at the bottom of the sea,ugly has helped find cures,ugly has solved mysteries. I loved the whole bluford high series and i cant wait to. Darrell and his mother move to the bluford area in the middle of the school year.
Eighth grade lesson pretty ugly day two betterlesson. However, after publishing the series first three novels, uglies, pretties, and specials, he ultimately wrote an additional fourth book, extras. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Dec, 20 explore dhslibrarys board if you like the bluford high series, try. A vocabulary list featuring uglies by scott westerfeld, part one. You can use the link to make a copy of the selfgradi. The author of pretty ugly is karyn langhorne folan. Uglies by scott westerfeld, part one vocabulary list. This about a girl that gets bullied thinking shes ugly when she really is not. Folan handles delicate emotional situations with care, and while sometimes she errs on the side of oversimplification, she steers the. Rating pretty ugly is the latest installment of the bluford series. Uglies is a book series by scott westerfeld for young adults. Bluford is named for guion guy bluford, the first africanamerican astronaut.
In the book pretty ugly, a girl by the name of angel was new to her school and wanted to try something different from her personality. My opinion on this book is that i really enjoyed it. Now jamee is a target, and someone is texting lies and pictures of her all over school. Students will be able to identify a crucial theme in the text pretty ugly. Ive known a few people who cant abide the word moist. You will need to come up with a realistic problem and solution that has not been used in any other bluford book for your story. This quiz has 25 questions covering common usage problems and commonly confused words. Personally i think crepuscular is a repulsive word. Pretty ugly is the 18th book of the bluford high series. A freshman at bluford high, jamee never expected vanessa pierce and her friends to go this far. Karyn langhorne folan quotes karyn langhorne folan quotes showing 11 of 1 of course im smart. See more ideas about books, bluford series and books for teens. Author karyn langhorne folan writes pretty ugly from a thirdperson perspective.