The document is a review of the book 'Starters' by Lissa Price, which tells the story of a poor girl named Callie who rents out her body to a body bank to support her sick brother. As she navigates the dangers of this dystopian future, she confronts challenges and a mysterious voice, Helena, that complicates her life. The reviewer praises the book for its unique premise, strong character development, and emotional depth, giving it a five-star rating.

1. By: Lissa Price
Hannah Flannery
Reading Miss Roche
Period 5
May 11

2. Lissa Price studied under Caroline
Leavitt, Donald Maas, and Janet Fitch.
She has read at the Iowa Summer
Workshop. She has lived in Japan and
India and now lives in Southern
California with her husband and the
occasional deer. She has written Starters
and is writing the sequel to it right now.
http://www.lissaprice.com/

3. Starters is about a poor girl in a dystopian future where her
brother is sick and the only way to make money is to rent out her
body to the body bank for three uses for people to trade bodies
with her. Callie Woodlawn is a poor girl with a sick brother who
she can not support. She has heard about a body bank that lets
older people use her body to do things they can not but it is risky
and highly dangerous. She does not know what to do but ends up
doing it. She leaves Michael, her potential boyfriend, in charge of
Tyler, her brother, and goes to the body bank to sign a contract
for the first three rentals. The first two go by fantastically, but
something wrong happened to the third rental and she is back in
her body. She decides to go back to the body bank and see what
happened. Then a voice in her head tells her to not go there. The
voice’s name was Helena Winterhill. So she doesn’t go back to the
body bank and meets a regular boy named Blake. They date for a
little while and she meets his grandpa, the Senator. She finds out
Helena wants to assassinate the senator in her body. Is Blake who
she thinks he is? Do she kill the senator? Will her brother survive?

4. Main Characters:
1. Callie- narrator of story, teenager, close to little brother,
head of family
2. Blake- loving, kind, courteous, takes care of family
3. The Old Man- runner of body bank, ruthless, cruel,
kidnapper, may be nice guy in next book but bad guy in this
book
Supporting Characters:
1. Michael- nice, strong, helps supports Callie
2. The Senator- stubborn, bad in pressure, nice man

5. Introduction:
- Meet Callie Woodlawn
-Setting is dystopian future in California
Rising Action
- She goes to the body bank
- The third one goes bad
- She hears Helena
- She figures out the plan
- She wants to find her brother
- She meets the Old man
Climax
- She tries to rip off his mask in an attempt to make sure he sets off
the body bank
Falling Action
- She finds Tyler
- She finds Michael
- learns the importance of humbleness

6. Conclusion
- She gets half of Helena’s estate
- She goes to the beach
- She hears the Old Man’s voice in her head telling her he is not
the bad guy, but will soon see someone else is the bad guy
- She hears her dad’s last message to her in her head

7. 1. Filigree
N, adj, v, anything very delicate or fanciful
“He handed me the purse and then held up a beautiful antique bracelet,
filigree with blue, and matching earrings.” Pg. 165
2. Renegade
N, a person who deserts a party or cause for another
“ I parked on the side street near Michael’s building and checked the area
for renegades.”
3. Inlaid
Adj, set into the surface of something
“On the desk was a flat, inlaid wooden box.” Pg. 85
4. Quirky
Adj, having or full of quirks
“ A quirky smile formed on his lips.” Pg. 97
5. Intrigued
V, to interest
“ She tilted her head as if intrigued.”

8. Callie Woodlawn played by
Victoria Justice
Tyler Woodlawn played by
Bradley Steven Perry

9. Helena’s voice by Betty
White
Michael played by Zac Efron

10. 1. After talking to the Old Man and crying about Tyler
being gone before she finds him in the ceiling.
Taken from Skyscraper Demi Lovato
Track 1: “Skyscraper”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8ydghbGSg&ob=av2e

11. 2. A scene where she visits Tyler and notices he is sicker.
“Stronger” by Kelly Clarkson
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller doesn’t
mean I’m lonely when I’m alone.
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter, footsteps even lighter. Doesn’t
mean I’m over cause you’re gone.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stronger, just me, myself, and I.

12. I give Starters a five out of five stars.
I loved this book because it was unlike any book I have ever read. It had
great characters, great author, and a great idea for a book. It is my new
favorite book. It had great character development and was very moving at
times.