7/3/2023 0 Comments Smile bookShe lands in a dilemma when Sammy asks her to the Valentine’s Day dance with the intent to confess his love to her. Raina is terrified, but she gets to wear a retainer with plastic teeth in between procedures that make her feel normal. Dragoni decides to remove them entirely and install full braces to push the remaining teeth together. The braces fail to pull the teeth down, so Dr. She figures out that Sammy has feelings for her as well but then develops an obsessive crush on Sean, a basketball player. Soon after, a major earthquake hits San Francisco, but Raina’s family only suffers temporary power loss. When Raina enters seventh grade, she develops a crush on Sammy, a sixth grader in her band class who also wears braces. Two of them, Karin and Nicole, make mean jokes at her expense. Meanwhile, a sub-conflict emerges as Raina’s friends pressure her about her appearance. Raina’s mother consoles her by buying her videogames and allowing her to get ear piercings on her 12th birthday. Fixing them requires a root canal, painful top-row braces to pull the front teeth down, and nighttime headgear that makes her feel like a nerd. Golden, she learns that her front teeth are now lodged too far above the others. Raina finds the situation funny at first but becomes frustrated with strict recovery guidelines, invasive questions, and throwaway platitudes. Golden for emergency surgery to insert one tooth back into her mouth and pull down the other from her gums. That night, Raina trips and falls face first while chasing her friends, breaking her two upper front teeth. Dragoni’s orthodontist office, where Raina learns that she will need braces to correct an overbite. Smile follows the point of view of 11-year-old Raina Telgemeier, a sixth-grade student at Aptos Middle School (for this guide, “Raina” refers to the book’s protagonist, and “Telgemeier” refers to the author).
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