For my first quarter SSR book, I read Dress Codes for Towns written by Courtney Stevens. It consists of 352 pages and categorized as a young adult fiction novel, about a teenage girl finding her identity in a town where everyone is expected to fit the stereotype placed upon them. The main character’s name is Billie McCaffrey, who is the daughter of the town’s preacher, expected to follow all the rules and to fall in love with a boy. However, she and her group of friends, they call the hexagon, are an interesting group of teens that plan many schemes. In this group of friends, Billie has to deal with her feelings of love as she may mess up the dynamic of the hexagon. Overall, we see Billie question the grey areas of life and struggle to deal with the pressure of the town’s people watching her.
One thing to love about this book is the amount of support her friends have for one another. In life it is difficult to find the right people that will have your back or someone that will give you space to bloom, so I can appreciate the dynamic of the hexagon. I can relate this to my life as I have finally found two of my bestest friends in the world, that similarly are respecting, and loving as them. As a teenage girl, like Billie who is supposed to be a good role model as the whole town is watching her, I find that I also feel the same pressure she does, since my father is also well respected in the church. However, one problem I had with the book was that there were many main characters, which I constantly confused together, or forget their names entirely. On the other hand, the many characters allows the possibility for each friend to teach Billie a different lesson, and be there for her.
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