PROTAGONISTS
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
    Full Name: Isabella Marie Swan
    Nickname: Bella
    Sequels: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn (forthcoming)
    Author’s Reason for Name Choice: It’s the name she would have given to the daughter she never had.

Let’s Get Lost by Sarra Manning
    Full Name: Isabel ???
    Explanation for name in the book: Her dad, a literary buff, named her after a character from a Henry James novel.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Keeping The Moon by Sarah Dessen
    Full Name: Isabel ???
    Relationship to Protagonist: Co-worker at a bar the protagonist befriends

ANALYSIS: WHAT KIND OF GIRL IS ISABEL?
    Both Sarra Manning and Sarah Dessen’s Isabel’s are fiesty girl characters with a lot of attitude. Stephenie Meyer’s Bella, however, is clumsy, reserved, and more mature than most of her teen peers.

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