Surviving The Applewhites By Stephanie S. Tolan

In the story “Surviving The Applewhites” by Stephanie S. Tolan. Which is a book about a boy named Jake Semple struggling to face his habit of being a larrikin and misbehaving so his social worker makes him go to a special school run by a family of artists called the Applewhites and him eventually learning that he is not the bad hoodlum everyone thinks he is. Jake Semple feels as though he is disappearing due to the fact that he is blending with the Applewhites in the sense that he is starting to act like them and be more open to learn and stay with them becoming in a sense a Applewhite. He starts to realize this on page 87 after he pets Winston (more on this later) and realizes that he is changing and is no longer the person he used to be and