The Pretty One 

Megan struggles with weight issues her whole life and it doesn’t help that her sister is drop dead georgous. She hears her sister laugh at her with her friends after they call her a fat water melon which really hurts her feelings. Megan ends up getting hit by a car and having to undergo surgery that made her beautiful. Now she has to adapt to a new life as the pretty one.

Megan Fletcher goes through so much in The Pretty One by Cheryl Klam. Megan sister Lucy hurts her feels so bad that she runs away and gets hit by a car making her have to undergo massive surgery to reconstruct her face.After the night of that accident her whole life was turned upside down in a blink of an eye. After undergoing surgery her life changed forever in a way that she never knew was possible, that she always dreamed of.  She once was the ugly duckling and now is the beautiful swan. She faces the challenges of being overweight then she loses all the weight and becomes the pretty one. Her family use to never take pictures of her now they  started to take pictures of her and she sees it as a little odd, how her family is treating   her differently. Megan life takes a turn when she comes back to school.The first day back to school goes differently for Megan. She is usually ignored. “As I step inside all the clapping quiets down almost immediately as Lucy’s friends take me in, inch by inch. There they are stunned gasping and a lot of ‘Oh my God.  Look at you…. You look amazing…. You look totally different……” was the reaction Megan got when she went back to school. The book captures her struggling to keep up her new found popularity in her new body. She sees everyone likes the new her instead of the old her instead of the old her and she comes to realize that she may too. Megan’s sister pushes her to look her best always and be her best unlike her old self. Megan seems to be losing her old self that she use to be so fond of.  Megan is learning that beautiful people are treated a lot differently then ugly people.Megan is unsure if their is real feelings for her best friend. Her best friend likes her for her new looks, but she likes the mystery boy that use to talk to her even when she was overweight The mystery boy doesn’t even really care about her new looks all he cares about is who she is. Megan is so dull to realize he doesn’t like her for her body, but for who she is . There are a lot of new found emotions that she is feeling at once. For the first time she wants something for herself instead of stepping down and letting someone else take the spotlight..  Megan and her sister, Lucy are fighting and they never ever fight. Megan’s life doesn’t seem to be getting any easier for her with  all the drama of trying to fit in, boys, Lucy, and learning who the real Megan is.  Being pretty is a powerful thing, but how you handle your beauty is the true power.