Book Review: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

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“High School: it changes people into the person they said they’d never become” (someliferules.com). In the book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Scott Hudson and his classmate are finally in highschool, and there are lots of unexpected changes that no one were expecting. Scott is included in lots of the school activities that are available to freshmen. These things include, Student Council, School Paper, Stage Crew, and more. Scott developed new friendships after one of his friend, Kyle started to do is own thing, the other one of them moved to Texas and the last one got a girlfriend. In addition to writing to school’s newspaper, Scott loved to write journal entries to his new soon to be little brother about what highschool is really like. Kyle,

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