"Jeremiah's hair was white-blonde in the sunlight, and he looked exactly the way I remembered." (The character, Belly, tells us what Jeremiah looked like when he was younger.)

"Taylor leaned over and pushed my sunglasses so she could see my eyes. She peered at me. "Are you mad?"

"No. It's just too hot out here." I wiped sweat off my forehead with the back of my arm.

"Don't be mad. Cory can't help being an idiot around you. He likes you."

"Cory doesn't like me," I said, looking away from her. But he sort of did like me, and I knew it. I just wished he didn't." (The characters, Belly, and Taylor, tell us there personality on how they talk about boys and there 'gossip'.)

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Belly, the person who is telling the story, says " I closed the door, and my chest hurt so bad I couldn't breathe," which is a Metaphor. She also says "I could feel all the tensions of the day drifting away from me and out to sea." which is Sensory Language

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Sometimes you have to work hard to save the memories.

The book shows this theme by...

First, Conrad runs away to save the house. Second , Belly calls her mom to come to Cousins and try to persuade Adam to not selling the house. And third, Conrad does the collage exams and ends up passing so that he could keep the house.

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