The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

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    In this young adult novel, the protagonist is a sophomore named Frankie who was unnoticed the year before because of her less-than-attractive appearance. During the story she uncovers secrets and deviously plans how to exploit the people connected to them. 
    
    This story is all about self-acceptance and not letting anyone step all over you or think that they have the better of you. I really enjoyed reading this book because the author wrote in a very witty, clever way. Frankie seemed to be a really smart girl and she thought of very unusual things. For example, she introduced me to the philosophy of the neglected positive. This is when there is a word with a negative prefix that is only used in the negative form. Those words are never transformed into their positive use. The way to do that is my removing the negative prefix and using it as the antonym of the original word. Voilá! Neglected positives.

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Nési's guide to neglected positives
Top 5
1. Gruntled (Disgruntled)
2. Turbed (Disturbed)
3. Maculate (Immaculate)
4. Vincible (Invincible)
5. Tressing (Distressing)

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