Summary Of Stewart Lewis's You Have Seven Messages

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Have you ever wanted to know the entire truth even though it could hurt you? Luna a fifteen year old girl did want to know the truth. You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis is mainly about Luna trying to find out how her mother actually passed away. Everyone has told Luna that her mother died by getting hit by a taxi which Luna doesn 't believe fully. Luna thinks that something different had happened and needs the help of friend and family to figure out what really happened. The main characters of this book are Malia Clover, Daria, Oliver, and Jules Clover. Malia Clover more commonly known as Moon or Luna is young girl learning more about her family and the world. Luna is 15 during the time frame of the book and is very smart. The fact …show more content…
The other characters in the book claim that she takes after her mother because she is great at comebacks just like her mother. She also is a character that is extremely easy to connect to due to the fact that she has an intense crush or that her mother has passed away. Also due to the fighting but still loving her father. The next main character is her father Jules Clover he is a major publisher in New York and because of this he missed a lot of Luna’s younger years. He still loved Luna and showed that very much throughout the book. Jules also tried to protect Luna from the truth about her mother this only caused Luna to be even more mad at him though. Another main character is Oliver he is the boy that plays the cello and lives across the street. He had curly reddish blonde hair that Luna adors. Oliver is a good kid he plays the cello well enough to have a concert in France and is just a well rounded kid. One problem with Oliver is that his father is very insistent that he does what he wants and this causes Oliver to be under a lot of …show more content…
She also talks about how her mother died and how she was her whole world. Luna also mentions that it is just her father, little brother, and her now. Luna then talks about her one and only crushe Oliver he is 16 and plays the cello. Luna then mentions that her family has a tradition to go to the Bronx zoo and how after her mother died the first time going was very odd. Luna then decides to go to her mother 's studio and finds her mother 's phone with 7 messages. She decides that she will check the messages but only one at a time. The first message is of her mother’s dry cleaner calling to tell her that her dress is ready for pick up. During all of this she asks Oliver if she can watch him play his cello. He said yes and they fall even more in love during this session. Luna also asks him if he will help her to find out how her mother really died. The next day Luna listens to the next message and finds out that her mother was meeting someone besides her dad. This man is Cole and thought the voicemails and people Luna has met she finds out where he lives. Luna and Oliver go to confront him and he doesn 't give them much information that Luna didn 't already have. That day when Luna and Oliver are leaving Oliver gets a call from his dad and quits talking to Luna for a couple of days. In this time Luna gets a present from her father of an old vintage camera that she takes many

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