Flipped By Wendelin Van Draanen

Novels can often have characters with challenges similar to the reader’s own. In the realistic novel, Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen, many readers can relate to the challenges of the readers. Juli Baker, from the novel Flipped, and I both share the challenge of not making good friends. Juli Baker from Flipped is challenged when it comes to making friends. One detail that supports this is,“Soccer camp had ended, and I’d been so bored because there was nobody, absolutely nobody, in the neighborhood to play with”(Van Draanen 11). This detail shows how she was lonely because she didn’t have friends around. Another detail is,”Darla was in a few of my classes, but we weren’t really friends, so I looked behind me to see who else she might be flagging”(Van