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Summary Of The Book 'The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer'
The book “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” by Michelle Hodkin is about a girl named Mara. Mara might look like your typical teenage girl that attends high school, but she is not anymore. Mara was involved in a horrible accident that left her as the only survivor while all of her friends died. Mara and her family relocate to Miami, FL. She has to begin school in the middle of the term while dealing with her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Then, she meets Noah, and falls in love Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. After Mara survives

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