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Alien On The Planet Ginny
In the book, “The Only Alien on the Planet” written by Kristen D. Randle she writes the quote, “I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare”. A character from the book, Ginny, wants to have a relationship with a boy named Michael, but the problem is that he doesn’t communicate with anyone. Ginny tries to push him, but pushes him too hard and he ends up in a hospital. Now she has learned how to be patient with others.

At the beginning of the book Ginny is sad and depressed because they moved and won’t be with her friends that she has known since elementary and it’s her senior year of high school with all new people she doesn’t

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