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Innocent, a mystery and historical fiction book, by Eric Walters, is about a girl named Elizabeth Anne Roberts (Betty), who is an orphan since she was three years old. One night, there is a fire at the orphanage Betty stays at, resulting in the orphans splitting up. The younger ones are adopted by families, but the older ones, like Betty, are scattered throughout America in 1964 to work. Betty is a maid for the wealthy Remington family. Before she leaves for the Remington estate, Betty’s caretaker, Mrs. Hazelton, leaves Betty with an envelope with papers about when her father was convicted of killing her mother when Betty was three years old. This is the reason nobody would adopt Betty when she lived in the orphanage. While Betty works at the Remington estate, she learns that her mother used to work there as a maid too and that she looks and acts exactly like her mother. Through this all, Betty uses her breaks to visit her father in prison and has to figure out if her father actually did kill her mother, or if he was set up and got convicted, with the help of her new friend, David, a police officer. Throughout the book, Mrs. Remington and one of her sons say that it was Betty’s father that killed her mother and that they tried to stop her mother from running away to be with her father because Betty’s mother supposedly believed only positive things about people. In the end, when a gun is pointed at Betty by Mrs. Remington’s son, Betty realizes that it is him who killed her mother and that Mrs. Remington set up her father. A quote from Innocent that connects to its overall message is, “...I’m not going to let anybody harm you…” (Walters 242) This quote connects to the book’s overall message because the overall message is to trust no one, especially those who protect you the most because they might be not who they seem to be. Mrs. Remington and her son were like the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” because they pretended to be the “good guys” by earning Betty’s trust. Betty is deceived the whole time and almost killed, until the other workers of the Remington estate saved her, made sure Mrs. Remington and her son were sent to prison and made sure Betty’s father is let out of jail. I can connect this book to my life because it shows how people should be more careful of others. I learned through this book that you can not really rely on anyone, you have to be independent, and that you should judge people carefully. If you are not careful enough, you can put your life in danger. In Innocent, Mrs. Remington and her son killed Betty’s mother for an evil reason. “He [Mrs. Remington’s son] nodded his head. ‘Really, she did is to herself. If she’d listened to me, it all could have been different.’” Betty asks, “...Why did you do it?” “‘She [Betty’s mother] rejected me, told me to leave...and then…’” (Walters 249) Another example of how people should be more careful of others is when Betty’s father has to gain Betty’s trust throughout the story, but Betty does the opposite of trusting the wrong people. Instead, she does not trust the right person. I also did not judge him correctly either since anybody in prison would say they are innocent and should not have been sent to prison, but he actually is not lying. Betty not remembering much about her father contributes to her not trusting him but wanting to trust him, which is how I realize that you should only trust the people you really know if you have to trust someone.

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it is ok

it was a original thats for sure

This book was amazing. It kept me guessing in every time. The cover was really dated and I always wondering I living in the story when I reading it. Life was very exciting for Jonathan when he lived with his con-artist father. But now he has to stay with his grandparents while his dad had to hides from his angry customers, and life is tough. This is why it is hard to make friends when you are scamming people. I benefit a lesson from this book we can’t deceive other people because you will become a cheater which people will not trust you anymore. I recommend to all people because this book was a good way to demonstrate how people change.

im reading this book in class its so interesting

I believe that Gerald could really dance but he did not because the book what elephant made him think it was true. But it was not because everyone can dance you just have to believe in yourself. Then at the end a surprise happened that Gerald did not see coming. I knew that at the end would turn out good even though most of the day turned out bad. This is just like first day jitters because both of them Day they were bad in the beginning. I think you should read elephants cannot dance you will like Elephants cannot dance because it is a bout the good friendship. So get into your car and drive away to get the Book elephants cannot dance.

I think this book is amazing and how it is most likely to be the best book ever.

Lia and Cassie used to be best friends, until the day both of them decided to be skinnier than the other. Both try doing terrible things to be slim, and Cassie dies of dehydration and an expanded stomach. Poor Lia , devastated by the death of her friend, starts being haunted by Cassie's ghost. The ghost tells Lia to die with her, to be skinnier and skinnier until she faces the same fate. Lia is driven crazy by the whispers and haunting of the mean ghost. Her divorced parents are fighting again. Her new stepsister is struggling in school. Lia's life is completely messed up. Finally, one night when Lia stays at the motl where Cassie died, she battles the ghost and wins. The see-glass that Cassie gave her shows that Lia will have a beautiful future after all, and the victorious Lia starts a new, normal life.

Being the fifth installment of Obert Skye's "The Creature from My Closet" series, let me just say that these books are amazing, and each book is better than the last. This book is filled with humor, action (sort of), unaverageness, and averageness. This book follows the story of Robert Columbo Burnside, an average kid with an average closet, until his Dad buys an odd closet door at a yard sale. After that, the closet spat out multiple odd creatures that are a mixture of 2 characters from books. Robert then reads the books to find out the story of these strange creatures. This time, a Gollum-Cat in the Hat mixture pops out. All in all, these books are masterpieces and I highly recommend them. Obert Skye has done it again!