IRA PART IIIBy: Megan Posey

Top 8By: Katie

Finn

Genre: Teen Fiction

Plot! Top 8 is about a teenage girl names Madison

MacDonald who goes on vacation to the Galapagos islands for 14 days. Her life is perfect! She has a new boyfriend (of 17 days) and three best friends. When she was on vacation she didn’t bring her cell phone or laptop, because you wouldn’t be able to use them since there was no service there. When she gets back from the vacation, she gets on her Friendverse account and see’s that her account has been hacked! None of her friends believe her, and the hacker broke up with her new boyfriend over there wall post. Now she has to get her life back together, and try to find out who did this.

Point of View The point of view is from the main

character Madison MacDonald.

Conflict! The conflict in the novel Top 8 is external and

internal conflict. In Top 8 Madison MacDonald’s Friendverse profile was hacked, she spends a majority of the book trying to figure out who hacked her. Doing so caused plenty of external conflict along the way with many of her classmates. Also causing internal conflict because, she did say rude and hurtful things and she tries to figure out mentally when and why she said those things.

For example:○ When Madison confronts Kittson(future junior prom queen)

and Connor(lost the race for class secretary to Madison).

Main Characters Direct and Indirect Characterization

1.Madison MacDonald

2.Justin Williamson

3.Ruth Miller “Rue Rue”

4.Lisa Feldman

1.Direct: She’s not liked.

Indirect: Her friendverse profile was hacked.

2.Direct: He’s a jock.

Indirect: ”He plays football in the fall and rugby in the spring.”

3.Direct: Ruth and Madison were best friends!

Indirect: Madison told Ruth everything while she was being hacked.

4.Direct: Madison’s 2nd best friend.

Indirect: #3 on friendverse right behind Justin and Ruth.

Main Characters Direct and Indirect Characterization

5.Schuyler Watson ”Shy”

6.Kittson Pearson

7.Connor Atkins

8.Frank Dell “Dell”

5.Direct: Madison’s 3rd best friend.

Indirect:#4 on Madison’s friendverse right behind Justin, Ruth, and Lisa.

6.Direct: She’s very popular

Indirect: Madison refers to her as the “future junior prom queen.”

7.Direct: He’s a sore loser

Indirect: He complained and dissed Madison when he lost to her in the running for class secretary.

8.Direct: He’s very smart.

Indirect: He is the schools “computer nerd.”

Literary Devices Foreshadowing

Saying Kittson is the “junior prom queen” when they haven’t been to prom yet, or voted.

Madison meets a boy named Nate in the Galapagos islands, later they become friends back in Connecticut.

IronyIt’s ironic that Madison met Nate in the

Galapagos and then meets him again in Connecticut

What I liked about Top 8!Positives Negatives

It’s relatable.

It keeps you guessing.

It’s a book that you don’t want to put down!

It’s somewhat predictable

There’s a lot of characters

Lisa speaks some French in the book. (I don’t know French.)

I recommend this book to… I recommend this book to any girls. This

book isn’t really a book for boys. I think boys would get bored reading it.

Sites http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4

505117-top-8 http://www.katiefinn.com/Katie_Finn/Boo

ks.html http://www.thisispoint.com/books/top8.a

sp http://fivestarreading.blogspot.com/2008

/11/top-8-by-katie-finn.html http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

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