Here is the plot synopsis so far. I couldn't get all of it as we have some discrepancies in our text, but Katie knows FAR more about how it all fits together than I do. Just sayin'.....
Teen Novel Plot Synopsis:

Book 1: “The Story of the Life you Don’t Want to Live”

Kyle is in her senior year. She’s a girl from a poor family, lives with her father and is in love with the most popular guy in high school. Her mother died in child birth with her, dad wanted a boy, so named her “Kyle.”

Her best friend is named Jean (pronounced as the French) he’s a guy and a trekkie. (StarTrek fan)

The Popular Guy is going out with Kyle’s ex-best friend, Jessica. Jessica turns out to be a lesbian and has a crush on Kyle.

Kyle has a locket from her mom that she can’t open.

She starts abusing drugs and cutting herself. Has sex with popular guy and gets pregnant. He leaves her immediately. In her sorrow and pain, she has a fling with Jessica has a miscarriage and ends up in a coma. While in the coma, Kyle’s dad dies. When Kyle wakes up from coma she has partial amnesia and is very confused. “”Feels like a broken typewriter without a click.”

Book 2:

Main character is Jerry. Jerry wears a trenchcoat and was molested by his parents. He is confused about his sexuality and joins a Trekkie cult of “True Believers in order to fit somewhere. He lives near a railroad track and thinks about leaving every time he hears a train whistle blow.

He is gay and has a crush on Jean, Kyle’s best friend. One day Jerry gets his legs cut off by a train. He is maimed but does not die.

The cult of Trekkies make him endure a ritual ceremony that involves stabbing…..

hey!
did you scare the boston public library guy?
(i assume that you had some sort of unusual philosophical discussion...?)
sadly i still have no books to recommend to you for all my reading time has been taken up by the copious amounts of reading i must do for english/history class.
oh well, at least the book is interesting
which more than can be said for many books one reads for school.
so perhaps i can come visit you during my next vacation.

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hey!
alas. i don't think that i'll be able to meet you at salem... for i have no way of getting there.
so, have fun and take pictures!!!!!
(and go in costume other wise there is little point in taking pictures.)
anyway...
i'm bored...
it's saturday and no one's around...
i don't want to do my homework...
stupid homework...
i have nothing more to say...
alas...

see ya!
~Eleanor
ps. i want to see this ultimate YA novel summary that you wrote. it sounds most amusing
(and now i'm going to stop procratsinating... and do some homework...)

Good job, folks,
Bernie had a good time!
If you haven't given in your permission slip for Salem (Sat. Oct. 30) please do.
We will be making our plans for a visit to see Bernie at the BPL sometime this winter.
He wants all of us to get a photo with our feet on his desk - talk about a power trip!

hi!
When are you going to Salem?!
maybe i can meet you there...?

See ya!
~Eleanor

Hi folks!
We are good to go with our Salem trip. I and Ida's mom, Emily's dad, and Erin's mom are driving.
If you can't go, don't worry. We'll be taking other trips in and around the Boston area throughout the year.
Katie - Great job with the novel synopsis. I can't believe you got everyone's input, but you did.
Wow. We should posted it here so Elenaor can read it, too. She'll definitely get it.
Eleanor - I hope you are doing well. We miss you! Trickster's Queen is out and everyone is on hold for it. Other books we talked about last week are: the Persepolis books I & II by Satrapi, Odo Hirsh books, Orca Soundings books (very short, but good), Perks (of course), Witches Key to Terror, the Led Zeppelin biography: Stairway to Heaven.
Ida noted that she and her French penpal have REALLY bonded. They seem to like the same kind of things.
My impression is that next weekend is the Drama club's Fall Festival. I hope all goes well for it. I will be in Chicago visiting my daughter, Anna. She is really liking the University of Chicago. It is a place where the "Life of the Mind" is alive and well. The discussons are great and the readings blend science, philosophy, and literature.
Bernie Margolis, the president of the Boston Public Library is coming to our next Bookmarks' meeting. I hope he enjoys it. I think we should have one of our deeper discussions for him....
Ellen

hey, I was writing beacause I want more Ideas for our story so I can write it more completly.
Thank you,
Katie