Brief Summary Of Beastly By Kyle Kingsbury

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Beastly is about a mean popular highschool boy named Kyle Kingsbury. He is cursed by a witch and becomes a beast. Kyle does this mean joke on a unpopular girl named Kendra, by asking her to be his date to the dance. But when she arrives to the dance she sees that Kyle is with another date. Kendra, who is actually a witch puts a curse on Kyle that turns him into a ugly beast. Kendra tell him that the only way to break the curse is to have a girl kiss him and to fall in love with his inter kindness instead of his outer beastly appearance. Kyle’s cruel father keeps Kyle hidden in a mansion with a blind tutor named Will and a housemaid named Magda. The witch leaves Kyle a magic mirror where he can see other people doing their everyday lives. …show more content…

She is the girl Kyle gave the corsage io at the dance. She lives in an impoverished area with her drug addicted father. Kyle wants to change his name to Adrian which means dark one. That night, Adrian catches a thief in his greenhouse. The man said he was sorry and tries to offer him drugs and money, but Adrian did not want that. The man then offers to bring his daughter to the mansion and exchange her for his freedom. While the robber's daughter happened to be Linda the girl he was looking through the mirror. Linda stays at the mansion with Adrian, Will, and Magda for a long time. At first she hated it but later on she opened up. At the end of the book Adrian and Linda get really close. She forget on how he looks and falls in love with his personality. “People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don’t even notice anymore.” He asks her if she would kiss him and she does. The kiss makes him transform back into his normal Kyle Kingsbury self. Because the curse has been lifted, Will receives his sight. Kyle finds out that Magda was really Kendra, the witch. Kyle and Linda return to their high school or their senior year. Will is now their English teacher

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