Just Ask Iris

Plot Summary- The book "Just As Iris" by Lucy Frank is about a girl named Iris. Iris's family are new to the apartment building and they haven’t met anybody yet. Iris decides to go up the fire escape stairs. She meets a lot of different people like Will, who is handicapped and is in a wheel chair, she meets the “Cat Lady” who has like 20 cats, and she meets other people like the super of the building. Iris is going through puberty and she needs to buy some things but she does not have money and her mom had not had started working yet. She thinks of ideas to get money, she comes up with a flyer that says “Just Ask Iris” she hands it out to the people in the building, if they need help or they need her to baby-sit they “Just Ask Iris”. They pay her at a price that they think is good. When she had enough money to buy what she needed, her brother took her to the store and she bought what she needed. In the building the elevator doesn’t work and some other things. Some things don’t work because the Cat Lady flushes the cats’ wastes down the toilet and clogs up a pipe that is in the basement. Through out the whole book she helps people in the building.

Thought about the book- I thought this book was good. It wasn't the best book I have ever read, but I still recommend it to girls. I liked it because it wasn’t sad and it was easy to understand what was going on in the book, but I still thought it was a good book at some parts it was funny. I think that the author is a very good writer because the book was very descriptive, it was easy to understand.

Character- The main character in this book was Iris. Iris is very friendly, responsible, and also nice. She helped people out in the building like baby- sitting for them, going down to the Bodega to buy them stuff, walking dogs, and many other things. Many people did not like the cat lady because they thought she was mean but she became friends with her. She was a very helpful person.

Reading Stratergies used- While I was reading this book a stratergie I used was Prediction. I predicted what would happen next or why it happened. This helped me a lot because I could understand better what was happening in the book. I also used my imagination; I could see Iris walking up the fire stairs and everybody telling her to get down because she could get hurt.

Author Information- Lucy Frank is the author of Just Ask Iris. She was born on March 22 1947. She writes a lot of Young Adult books. I am an Artichoke, Lucky Stars are some of the books she has written, but there are many other Young Adult books she has written. I think she is a very good writer.