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Plot Summary of The Lake House
"The sequel to When the Wind Blows, The Lake House tells the story of six extraordinary children, endowed with the power to fly after genetic engineering merged their DNA with that of birds, and who have to fight for their lives against scientists who want to clone them, producing a race of human-bird creatures.

Kit(an FBI agent) and Frannie(a Veterinarian) follow 6 amazing children through there struggles with a secrect organization seeking to capture the six children, and take over the world.

The six children being(in order of age): Maximum, Ozymandias, Iggy, Mathew, Peter, and Wendy. "

Cori, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Lake House
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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Tone of book - very upbeat
Lifeform altered? Yes
Kind of alteration: - Scientifically turned into another lifeform
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Family relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - a teen
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - can fly
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Genius
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - scientist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Earth setting: - current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - an average amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - actual description of sex
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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