Dragon: A Young Adult Novel by Amanda Linehan

Dragon: A Young Adult Novel

By Amanda Linehan

Silver has it all figured out. She’ll finish high school with fantastic grades, more popularity than most, a resume to impress the most stringent college admissions officer, and a rock-solid plan for her future. There’s only one thing standing in her way – an A in Advanced English. 

When she teams up with an unlikely ally - the outcast with the hand-drawn dragon on the back of his jacket - her path becomes clear and she devises a plan to steal the final exam and guarantee that she gets an A in English. If she fails, it will cost her everything. But if she succeeds, she’ll only have to do one thing. 

Decide just how far she’s willing to go for perfection.

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MY REVIEW

Silver had everything going for her. She was the cheerleading captain and pretty much the most popular girl in school. She had amassed an impressive resume to add to her college applications, and she had worked extra hard in order to impress the most selective university in the nation. But now she has an unexpected obstacle to overcome. She has a B average in her Advanced English class and that’s enough to derail her well-laid plans. Silver sees only one way to get around it, and that is to steal the answers to the final exam. Knowing she can’t do it alone, she enlists help, but later questions that being a wise move.

This young reader had it all, popularity, peer pressure, self-doubt, teenage angst. Except for Silver, I liked the characters. Silver was self-absorbed and I feel she acted less mature than her character should have been. Also, I felt the entire idea of the test cheat, and the fiasco that ensued was totally wrong thinking for a student of her stature. It went against the type of personal character that was built up for her before the beginning of the story. In other words, an upstanding student. I think the moral of the story shines through easily though. I felt the writing was good, except for the character flaws I already mentioned.

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**The above opinions are 100% my own, whether I purchased the book or it was given to me to review.

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