I am reading the book Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos. It is about a boy named Jack who just got off for summer vacation and he is going to do so much fun stuff... but then he gets grounded. Now all he's looking forward to is a summer of sitting in his room and doing chores. Then old Miss Volker calls saying she needs Jacks help. When he arrives he realizes Miss Volker needs him to write obituaries for all the original Norveltors. At first this job seems to compleatly suck, but it turns out to become pretty interesting. Maybe the summer won't be so bad for him.

Throughout the book Jack changes to realize that although he is grounded he can still have fun. One time I saw this change was when he had his birthday. He was really happy and was having fun even though he was grounded. Another time this happened was when he was talking to his best friend: "Your whole summer is wasting away,"said his best friend. "You're wrong, I'm having a very interesting summer," Jack replies. This shows that Jack likes the way his summer is going despite him being grounded. These two things show that Jack is having a good summer.

This can relate to teenagers becaues it shows that Jack found some fun even though he was grounded. If you are bored, don't just be bored. Try to find some something to do. Ideas come from boredom. Jack at first didn't do this and he was not happy, but later he realized that he could have a fun summer. At the end of the book Jack thought he had a very interesting summer.