Bryce Loski is the main character of the book I read Flipped. In this book Bryce is an eighth grader with blue eyes and black hair. He also has a little trouble with a girl who lives across the street Julianna, who has had a crush on him since they were seven. Even though they're neighbors Bryce doesn't even know anything about Julianna except that she's smart and that he doesn't like her the way she likes him.
Bryce is a sporty guy that likes to play soccer and hang out with his friend Garrett. He also is what I say a little afraid of Julianna Baker the girl who lives across the street. He's he kind of guy that you would want to be your friend because he would try to tell things the way they are. Juli on the other hand thinks that he is the best guy in the world until in eighth grade when some one cuts down the sycamore tree and he doesn't try to help Juli save the tree, then she starts thinking of him as a coward and a sneak.
Julianna Baker is another main character that has been living in the neighborhood as long as she can remember. Then on one glorious day the Loskis move in and somebody as old as Juli finally comes to the neighborhood. As soon as she runs over to the moving van she sees Bryce the boy with the bluest eyes that she has ever seen she quickly develops a crush on him. but he thinks she's crazy because she jumps right into the van with muddy sneakers and almost starts climbing on the luggage. For the sixth grade science fair Juli incubated eggs and the surprising thing is that the eggs hatched during the fair. Although she likes collecting eggs from her chickens her goal is to get a kiss from Bryce.
Julianna is a smart girl who knows how to have fun, she loves to climb the disfigured sycamore tree that could topple over at any moment. She is the one that helped Bryce get through his spelling tests which was the best part of the year for her because she got to sit behind him. Juli likes to play soccer and kick the ball at her house to get the ball to bounce back at her. She doesn't like going near her bus stop anymore because of what happened to her tree so she rides her bike to school now through rain and snow. I think that Juli is really tough to be able to tell herself to ride her bike through the rain. Who can tell Bryce what Juli has really been doing these past couple of years he thought that she was crazy, she thought she was protecting him. Those re the two main characters of the book Flipped.
I think that the theme of the book is that first impressions really are the most important, Juli did not make a very good first impression when she jumped into the moving van without even asking. Neither did Bryce when he decided to run away and hide behind his mom when Juli came over. I have had problems with sone one and their first impression, it was my first time riding the bus with my little brother and some kid asked to look at my brother's umbrella and broke it, I don't know why he just did. My mom said that my brother wasn't allowed to take stuff out of his backpack on the bus any more, but did he listen not for very long no.
Another theme that I think can work for the book is that you can't ignore somebody forever they will always find a way to communicate with you. At the beginning of the book Bryce would try to avoid Juli but in the end Juli tries to save him from his girlfriend. Near the end of the book it was vice versa and Juli was the one trying to ignore Bryce,that worked longer than when Bryce tried it but still failed, so I come to a conclusion that it is almost impossible to ignore some one.
