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SETTING
The majority of the book takes place downstairs of Chesterton High School, where community service was held in room 104. It takes place in a small town where there are many running trails through woods, abandoned skate parks and many thrift shops.
PLOT
The book is mainly focused on what got Ashleigh Maynard into sixty hours of community service. With it being summer, Ashleigh’s boyfriend, Kaleb is constantly away from home with his baseball team, playing as much as they can before summer ends and they all part off to different colleges. Ashleigh, whose only an upcoming junior realizes she’s been quite lonely without him, other than cross-country. So a few nights before school starts again, Ashleigh partied at her best friend Vonnie’s house, who is known for throwing the biggest and baddest parties. With the music up, and the red solo cups filled up to the rim, everyone there let go and just enjoyed lounging around on the patio deck or the pool. Rachael, one of Vonnie’s friend, who Ashleigh can’t stand, suggests that if Kaleb isn’t going to make it to the party, why not send him a present just as juicy. Doubting herself and the idea, she never would really go through with sexting him a picture. Until all her friends talked her into it, or at least slurring the
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Ashleigh blamed and assumed that Kaleb was constantly with girls until one day he couldn’t stand it anymore. They fought, and he drove back down into town and br...

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...elt towards her, and how her parents would talk to her.

THEME
To always think of the outcome of things and never be pressured into doing things you’re not comfortable with. Another theme is to always keep your head up, because things always look bad, but you need to step back for a moment, and look at it as a whole. That way you can wrap your head around things, and know it can only go up. Things may seem bad at first, but it may just teach you a lesson.
PERSONAL RELEVANCE
I think this book is very interesting and informative towards teens my age because it

shows a poor decision made, and the mess it led up to. It teaches us as a whole, that sexting is

illegal and that we should not follow what Ashleigh did. It only produces a chain of events

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caused from one bad mistake, and now many others pay the price too.

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