Jennifer+Murdley+Book+Talk

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How would you feel if you had to wear your brother’s underpants to school? That is what happened to the fifth grader Jennifer Merdly. She has puggy cheeks, small eyes, and a clump of a nose. All she wanted was to be beautiful. At the beginning of the story, she gets chased by Sharra’s gang. She gets chased into a street she dosen’t know of. After the gang loses her, Jennifer begins wandering around. When Jennifer stumbles across a magic shop, she goes in. In there she buys a talking toad named Bufo. Jennifer found out that Bufo has a magic kiss, and if he kisses someone, they turn into a toad too. She also finds out that Bufo has a ‘Jewel of Perfect Happiness’ embedded in Bufo’s forehead. When Brandon turns into a toad and a witch captures him, she doesn’t know what to do. When the witch called her, she offered to trade Brandon for Bufo. When she got Brandon back she turns herself into a toad. Jennifer kissed Bufo many times and she grew in size and captured the witch in her jaws. The witch offers to change her into being beautiful if she gets to have Bufo. Will Jennifer choose being beautiful over Bufo?

Nicholas