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Book Review on the Girl Who Can Fly
Book Review: The Girl Who Could Fly
The Girl Who Could Fly is an odd little book, which anyone would enjoy. Piper McCloud is a girl who flies. When her flying abilities catches attention, mysterious strangers started to show up on her family farm promising her family that they've got the perfect school for her. A school where her abilities will be appreciated. Away Piper goes, leaving behind her family and home. The school or institute (initialized as I.N.S.A.N.E) is different alright. Everyone Piper meets is unusual from the adults to her fellow classmates. She will go through many different and unusual adventures in that institute and see what is stirring inside it, that she thought would have been perfect.
Piper McCloud is the main character, the protagonist of novel, The Girl Who Could Fly. Piper has been described as a beautiful 13 years old girl. She has long nut - brown hair that was fixed into two braids, Bright blue eyes, and a lot of freckles. Piper lived in Lowland County with her parents but soon she was sent to the I.N.S.A.N.E Institute. Piper is an extremely talkative girl with high curiosity for many things. Anyone would love Piper by how joyful and hyper she is, yet she understands things very thoroughly. Piper has a very unique ability to fly, which she likes to use. She prefers using her ability for the better of everyone. Piper is the type of person who enjoys giving company to people and talking to them. She also enjoys helping people. Piper has many goals described in the book, some of her goals include: making a difference in the world whether its big or small, escaping from the institute, and stop the concept of bullying in any way. Close to the ending of the book Piper was changed by the antagonist of the novel, by destroying the ability of Piper's flying and walking ability. But, one of the character in the novel healed Piper and returned her to her usual self.
Conrad is the side-kick of Piper, was the antagonist of the novel, The Girl

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