I+Was+a+Teenage+Fairy

            I Was a Teenage Fairy (: AUTHOR: Francesca Lia Block                                    ANGEL AND NATALIE ROCK THIS PAGE, DUDE BE JEALOUS (:

Mab is Barbie's imaginary friend, she is a pixie and thinks Griffin is a BISCUIT (: She is sarcastic and knows how to stand up for herself, though she is a little snotty. Todd and Griffin are best friends and are both gorgeous models. Barbie and Todd like eachother, but Todd is too selfcentered and Griffin is more laidback. Ashley is Todd's EX-GIRLRIEND and she is way jealous of Barbie and his relationship. Quotes: If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone inflated breasts, woman in a magenta convertable with heart shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teeny bopper sister.
 * Exposition: Barbie lives in Los Angeles, California. Her parents don't live together and Barbie's mom was once a model and wants her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Barbie's father ignores her because he thinks she's to young to be wearing makeup and smoking. Now he has his own daughter and never visits Barbie.

Quote: "Barbie was hoping that her father would protest, that he would insist that there would be no pagent, no diets, no baby animals."
 * Inciting Incident: Barbie doesn't want to be a model at all and her mother forces her. Now she is distant from everyone, she starts to smoke and does bad things that hurt her.

Quote: Barbie threw down the book and lunged at the door. She almost fell into her mother's coconut greased arms as it opened. "It's my money!" she screamed.
 * External Conflict: The external conflict is kind of like the inciting incident, Barbie's mother runs her whole life and Barbie hates it. One day Barbie cracked and she was yelling at her mother saying she wants to have all the money she worked for.

Quote: Okay, charming. And he had come all this way. To see her, supposedly. Quite the Operator. But she was smiling anyway; she couldn't help it.
 * Internal Conflict: When Todd gave Barbie the note saying he was REALLY sorry, Barbie was debating on if she wants to forgive him or not.

Quote: How many girls come in and out of Todd's hotel every week? "And what's this about tattoos?"
 * Complications: Todd is a player and played Barbie, he is a distraction in her life. When her mother took her to NYC. Todd followed her and she once again got confused and distracted. Another complication is that Mab wants to be with Griffin, but the only problem is that she is a fairy and has to stay hidden. (: DUN DUN DUN!!!!

Quote: Maybe Griffin felt Todd and Barbie's love like a sparkling web of light spinning around him. Or maybe the web of light was there after he left leapt, singing in a high voice about coming away, to water into wild away from the weeping that he can not understand.
 * Climax: The climax is Todd and Barbie getting back together, and Mab coming back. Everything is starting to turn out right for Barbie.

Quote: Now that the tattoo was different Sarah, Lisa, and Nina had lost some letters under the camouflage of inky flowers and been combined, E's added, into the name Selena. Quote: Later, in Todd's room, Barbie held up the picture she had developed starring at the pin wheels of light flaring out behhind the two tiny figure on the leaf, so not only did Mab show up on film she really wasn't the only one, after all.
 * Theme: The theme of the story is that you always have to follow your dreams not what everyone else wants you to do. I think Barbie should follow her dream of being a photographer, I know she enjoys it.                           (:

Natalie's prediction: My prediction is that Barbie is going to follow her dreams and that she is going to leave all of her family alone and deal with her self, by her self. No one is going to stop her, she is going to live with Mab and Todd forever.

Angel's prediction: My prediction is that Todd and Barbie are going to get back together, and Ashley is going to keep stalking them, and get so furious then breakout in pimples from stress and then shes going to quit modeling and become homeless.

I would recomend this book to people who would like to read about these following subjects; fansity, problem sloving, and problems of finding dreams. We enjoyed this book alot!! (:

BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ... (: -Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie bat books -Girl Goddess #9 -The Hanged Man -Ecstasia -Primavera and Francesca Lia Block wrote a feature in Spin Magazine, "Coolest people in LA"