Confectionately Yours By Lisa Papademetriou: Summary

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The Character Of Hayley In “Confectionately Yours”

The main character in my book “Confectionately Yours”, written by Lisa Papademetriou, is a girl who likes to bake and find out how to do new things everyday. Hayley’s dad has big plans for an untraditional family thanksgiving- with his new girlfriend and her parents, which she is not looking forward to. She spends most of her time at the shop. Her friend, Marco seems to struggle in school, and is not liked by the teacher, so Hayley does whatever she can to help him do better. She is caring, Ignorant, and Honest at times. Throughout the story she starts to realize that she has her life too good to act Ignorant towards others.

“I think that one of you copied from the other”-The teacher

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