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**Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey** by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The fictional book, Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a very inspiring book showing how you can have courage to talk to someone about the issue’s going on in your life. The book tells about a young girl named Tish Bonner. She is going through a rough time with her friends and her family. She has a younger brother named Matt and a mother who always is waiting around for the father to come back. The Dad is very violent man who only comes around when he needs the money. He will come every couple of months to get what he needs from the family. He will bring them presents and act like the all-American dad when he comes around. The only thing wrong with this is he is using the families money not his own. He acts like he cares about them so much but Tish isn’t convinced. She can see right through the whole scheme. Tish is also not very close to her friends. She has friends but they are always getting upset because she has to watch her little brother. She works at the Burger Boy. She is the one who pays for most of the things her and her brother have. Her mother works but she is an emotional wreck it is hard for her to make enough money to help support them. The journal for English class is like Tish’s therapist. She gets to let all her deepest thoughts out on paper. If it wasn’t for the journal her life would have probably stayed the same or grew to become worse. She for the most part write “do not read” on the top of here entries. Until one day her mother leaves the kids behind and says there is money at her work for them to pick up. The kids go to get the money and she had not left them anything. Tish has to take an even bigger role for her little brother. She did all she could until she finally breaks down and talks to Mrs. Dunphrey. She helps the kids out for as long as she can until Tish and Matt go live with their dad’s parents they have never met. The grandparents even let the kid’s mom stay. The story has a happy ending.

I really enjoyed this book it was very inspiring and it also makes the reader get so wrapped up in the story. I would definitely recommend this book to others if they are looking for a good read. Tish will teach a person how to grow mentally and have courage to take the role of an adult at a young age. The book will also show how it is never too late to grow closer to family members you have never meet and to stand up for your self when things are going wrong. Again, I would definitely recommend this book to others.