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Summary Of Smile By Raina Telgemeier
This month I read the book Smile by Raina Telgemeier. In this series, the protagonist Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader.The initiating event of this story is when Raina gets back from a girl scouts meeting. She trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. She goes to the dentist immediately where the doctor tries to put the teeth that she knocked out, back in place. He later puts a cast on Raina’s teeth while the teeth heal. At the follow-up visit where Rania's dentist removes the cast to examine her teeth, he notices something very strange.Raina had damaged her jaw so the teeth were sucked back, creating an uneven look. What follows this catastrophic event is a long, frustrating journey with on and - off braces, humiliating

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