Stargirls, Stray Dogs, Freaks, and Nails: Person vs. Society Conflicts and Nonconformist Protagonists in Young Adult Fiction

A similar life force is ovum aka Victoria from Cecil Castellucci's stripling Proof. Egg demonstrates her outsiderness in appearance-a shaved head and multiring-covered ears-and actions, of the like kind as both dominating and demeaning her associate Sci Fi Club members. With the two her parents connected to the movie industry, Victoria doesn't perceive the need to connect to the normals at her institute In fact, her self-inflicted nickname rise s from the heroine of her favorite science fiction movie with which she's obsess with forty plus viewings. What she's not obsess with is being popular, fitting in, or dating: her weirdness makes her lad proof.

Until Max arrives upon the scene and sees something beyond the hard shell Egg's made for herself. Finding they have belonging to all if odd interests, as well as similar high IQs, ovum leads down her guard to allow Max into the clos put life she's constructed for herself. The road to romance isn't easy, in part because it's unexplored. ovum is so accustomed to the couple pursuing her own goals (drawing and dreaming) that level friendship is difficult, let alone a relationship. on the contrary as she grows closer to Max, ovum starts to realize she's not an alien upon the earth, but a human in as plenteous need of companionship as anyone other