Best Dressed By Jasmine Jones

Decent Essays
“Best Dressed” By: Jasmine Jones

Introduction Best Dressed is written by Jasmine Jones who is a published adapter and an author of children’s book. This book was awarded as the fourth weekly winner in the viewer’s choice voting during the “Summer of Lizzie McGuire” promotion. The story is all about a dress competition in their University. Lizzie McGuire is a student girl who wants to beat Kate and Claire for the “Best Dressed” of her class.

Summary
The voting for the class favorite is soon to be open and Lizzie like to win the best dress but her mother Mrs. McGuire have not enough money to buy Lizzie her favorite pair of pants but she promised she’ll help Lizzie and Mrs. McGuire go to bargain hunting for clothes alone. And when

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion. However, she becomes a different character who changes perspective on the economic world.…

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Character Identification Protagonist: Francis, a poor young girl in Brooklyn. Neely, her younger brother. Katie her mother, Her dad johnny.…

    • 980 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the book a break with charity by ann rinaldi the main character, Susana english looks back on 1691 and all the choices she made that had to do with the Salam witch trials. Susana was standing in the town talking to the town gossip, Sarah bibber. When Susana was standing there she saw Ann Putnam and a group of girs she despreilty wanted to be friends with go into the reverends parris passage. Susana asked sarah and found out the only go in when the reverend is gone because they were strict puritans and that was a sin.…

    • 694 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In “Eleven,” Rachel’s teacher must decide what is true about the red sweater. View events from Mrs. Price’s perspective. Consider why she finds it hard to believe Rachel when the Rachel protests. In an essay, explain how and why she comes to the conclusion that the sweater belongs to Rachel. Use examples from the selection.…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alene Smith swept the floor of the lobby, trying to look graceful She swept her arms in what she thought was a fluid motion, but it was hard The floor was almost clean, but then she spotted a clump of dirt by her foot, and tried to sweep it up She knew that sweeping up dirt probably wasn't the smartest idea, but she was watching the television and she didn't think much of it She didn't want to move, because even if she moved a little bit to the left she wouldn't be able to see the television anymore As she tried to sweep up the dirt, she moved her foot a little bit, and she tripped over the broom She heard the few customers chuckle, and her face turned red…

    • 1901 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Martha Salinas,’ “The scholarship Jacket,’’ we are introduced to Martha, She is in 8th grade with straight A’s. She is a mexican 14 year old. Her father is a farm laborer who couldn’t earn enough money to feed eights children. So when she was six years old she was given to her grandparents. In May, close to graduation, she was almost back to her classroom door when she heard voices raised in anger as if in some sort of argument.…

    • 415 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Goal 1: Lizzie will improve her emotional and behavioral regulation. • Lizzie and her mother were in a pleasant mood when the QP met with her for a session. • Lizzie’s mother informed the QP Lizzie went to a girl scout event over the weekend and was successful; however, when she returned home she was telling family negative things about her not buying any jewelry, so Sunday she went and bought her jewelry on the way home Lizzie was screaming in the car because she could not get any ice cream. • Lizzie watched a portion of the SFP video while eating ice cream. • Lizzie commented, “I liked watching the family do the skit.”…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jeannette becomes editor of the school paper, by time she was a sophomore and by junior year she is the editor-in-chief and writing most of the paper because she has a hard time enlisting staff. As editor-in-chief she gained some popularity, because classmates were willing to talk to her if it means they got their names in the paper. The peak of her career was interviewing Chuck Yeager, a famous Air Force pilot. Even her dad was thrilled by the project and coaches her through the process from coming up with questions to writing the article. Jeannette plans to apply to colleges in New York City and join Lori there after graduating from high school.…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Observation In her story “Every Day Use,” Walker contrasts two sisters’ characters and shows how their different personalities impacted their view of and appreciation for their farming family heritage. Dee is beautiful, intelligent, bold, and active and “‘no’ is a word the world never learned to say to her” (Walker 610). It became known that she “wanted nice things…at sixteen she had a style of her own: and knew what style was” (Walker 611-12). Thus, Dee learns to have her own way and her outspoken, rebellious personality makes her demand much from others.…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sandra Cisneros Eleven

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages

    What is “Eleven” saying about the world of children vs the world of adults? The world of children is often thought of as trivial, insignificant, etc. compared to the issues and concerns that involve adults. In the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is about Rachel’s eleventh birthday and reveals that children are hesitant to stand up to adult authority figures.…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace,” Mathilde Loisel disdains what she had- a cozy home life, a bowl of hot soup, a loving husband- and seek for possessions that exhibit wealth. Because of her greed, Mathilde lost ten years of youth, leaving everything behind, and is forced to reside as a ragged housewife. De Maupassant informed the reader of Madame Loisel’s longing for wealth and her ungratefulness for what she has, through his use of anaphora. Therefore, Mathilde is a character that best represent the theme, excessive pride can lead to an individual’s downfall, by de Maupassant’s usage of symbolism and foreshadowing. De Maupassant began his story with Mathilde's laundry list of empty dreams.…

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sisters from Story Everyday Use Alice Walker in her short story Everyday Use, published in 1973, brought us into house of Mrs. Johnson, black women living in the rural part of country. We are visiting her in the same time as her older daughter Dee. Through the mother’s eyes we see how her two daughters, although born and raised in the same house are different. They are different not only in their appearance, but also in their approach to life, family, everyday objects even their heritage. Unlike Dee, Maggie still lives in her mother’s house.…

    • 839 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Raising fists, protesting, bleeding, sweating, and crying, are just a glimpse of what you would witness back in the 1960s as African Americans were fighting to gain equality in America. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the readers travel back to this time period where they meet an African-American family, Mama, Dee, and Maggie, who are trying to keep their legacy alive. Throughout the story Walker shows that Dee has a different way of viewing and respecting her heritage than her mother and sister do, which leads Mama to reject Dee’s way of thinking. To start, Dee seems to have a negative view of her family members. Dee is the only one in her family who was able to get a full education, which was due to Mama and their family’s church raising money to give her that magnificent opportunity; however, it is clear that Dee lacks much appreciation of it.…

    • 1356 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the play The Shape of a Girl by Joan Macleod, Braidie, a sixteen-year-old girl is talking to her absent brother about growing up with her small group of friends who have committed acts of violence and bullying in the past. In The Shape of a Girl, Braidie jumps back in her past several times from the age of eight to a few weeks ago at sixteen. In the play, they discuss very real and very important issues to young people in our society. It exposes the lives and inner workings of female social groups, the effects of bullying on children and teens, and the complex roles of bystanders. Braidie belongs to a group of friends made up of Adrienne, the leader, herself, a follower and close friend of Adrienne’s, Amber, another follower, and Sofie, the punching bag.…

    • 891 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The main female character is Mrs.Sommers who is a wife and mother. Her family is poor and what little money she obtains she always uses it to buy her kids some bargain clothes or food. On this particular day Mrs.Sommer is really worn out of running errands and stops by a store. Instead of buying clothes for her children she buys a pair of Silk stockings that she absolutely adored. The feeling she got from buying herself something made her happy.…

    • 1805 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays