The Friendshipmaker Sam

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The Friendship Matchmaker

By: Randa Abdel-Fattah

Samantha Williams


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Character Traits

Lara is very helpful. In the story Lara helpspeople make friends by using her friendship

matchmaking skills.

Tanya is very shy. In the story Tanya does not

talk very much and just keeps to herself mostof the time.


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Setting Description

The whole story takes place at school mostly

during the day. In school they are either in the

classroom or out at recess.


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The problem in the story

The problem is that Lara is having a very hard

time finding Tanya a friend even though she is

the friendship matchmaker.


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Important Events

1. Lara tried to help Emily fit in but Emily

ignored what Lara told her to do.

2. Lara and Emily made a bet where you had to

find someone a best friend.

3. Lara found 3 friends for Tanya but all 3 of

them did not work out.

4. Lara finally found a friend for Tanya and it

was her.


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Solution in the story

The solution is that Lara finds out that the

prefect friend for Tanya is her even though she

is suppose to match people with others not

herself.


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How the main characters changed

through the story

In the beginning Lara was very strict about her

friendship matchmaking rules but in the end

she was not very strict about them.

In the beginning Tanya was very shy and did

not have many friends but in the end she was

not shy anymore and had a very good friend

named Lara.


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Recommend this book

Yes I would recommend this book because it

helps you in your own live, also it is

interesting, exciting and very surprising.


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Golden lines

1. There were three big cardboard boxes

painted red, green and yellow spaced at

various distances from the free-throw line of

the court.

2. That self-congratulatory expression on her

face now that she had just won the prize.


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Summary

In the beginning of the story there was this girl namedLara that was the friendship matchmaker and shewanted to help this girl named Emily. Lara was trying

to give Emily tips on how to fit in at school but Emily

just ignored everything that Lara was telling her. They

started arguing with each other and them came upwith a bet. The bet was that they each had to find

someone else a best friend. They both rushed off to

find someone to give them a friend. Emily found

Bethany and Lara found Tanya. Both of them werehaving a little trouble finding their person a friend.

Lara tried three people for Tanya but they all did notwork out.


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Summary (cont)

Emily was working on finding a perfect friend forBethany. Then one day they took a class field trip to the

aquarium and it went very wrong. This kid named

Chris stole Laras journal and read it out loud to the

whole class. Some of the things in there were not verynice about other people and when they heard whatLara said about them they got very sad. Lara was very

embarrassed and did not know what to do so she went

around and apologized to everyone. When she got toTanya she apologized and told her she found her a best

friend. When Tanya found out that Lara wanted to be

her friend she was so happy and said yes!!!


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About the author

Randa Abdel-Fattah was born in Australia on June 6,1979. Randa wrote her first "novel", which was based on

Roald Dahl's Matilda, when she was in sixth grade. Shewrote the first draft of Does My Head Look Big in This?when she was about 16 years old. She was about 26years old when Does My Head Look Big in This? was

published in 2005. Randa loved writing books so muchthat she decided to write five more books: Ten Things IHate About Me, Where The Streets Had A Name, Noah'sLaw, The Friendship Matchmaker and The FriendshipMatchmaker Goes Undercover. Randa writes fun books

that can be read and enjoyed by all ages!!!

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