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"Avalon High" Summary
Elaine Yang
Avalon High Avalon High which is written by Meg Cabot is a great science fiction and fantasy book. This book is a mythical tale about a girl named Ellie who moved to Maryland with her family. Her parents are professors that study and write about the medieval times and they always play vocabulary games. She is a shy but brave girl and has long brown hair. Her new house has a pool and a floaty which she loves to lay on and think about stuff.
During a run with her father in the park one day, she meets a couple of people who she befriends. Her new school is called Avalon High in which her friends, Will, Jen, and Lance, also go to. The school seems pretty normal and she has normal classmates. Will has a stepbrother named Marco who plays a bad guy in the story. For some reason when Ellie meets Will, she feels like she has met him before although they both know that they haven’t. They group of them all seem pretty normal, but are they? Slowly but surely, all the pieces start to fall together starting with a hidden, mysterious page in a book regarding the medieval times. They all have a unique past and it will be up to them to destroy the one thing that could destroy everything, Marco.
Ellie is underestimated, but when the time comes when life could be death for everyone in the medieval world, would she be able to save Will. Will is actually King Author, Ellie whose full name is Elaine Harrison is the Lady of Shallot, or Lady of the Lake, Jen is Queen Guinevere in the legend, Lance is Sir Lancelot, and Marco is Mordred. In the end Ellie successfully saves Will and saves

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