Not a Harry Potter post today? I know! Don't worry, it shall be mentioned ;) Well yes, we are straying from Harry Potter today and listing a few of your favorite, most-loved and most-hated sassy book characters. Here goes! (But not necessarily in this order, of course)
1. Pansy Parkinson from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. Girl is a gossip queen. Always checking Witch Weekly for the latest news, and she lives off of making the Gryffindors feel horrible about themselves. Always has her "gang of Slytherin girls" with her in case she needs someone to gossip to.
2. Thomasina from The Diamond Smugglers by O.M. Brookes. This is a classic that I think is a little less well-known than some of the others, but every good classic has to have a girly-girl, as you would know if you've read the Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott (And yes, readers, it is a series, which is quite a little-known fact). So, of course, what would The Diamond Smugglers be without girly, adventurous, fabulous Thomasina?
3. Zoe from Vet Volunteers by Laurie Halse Anderson. Most people don't really know this one either. Vet Volunteers is good for you if you like animals and your idea of a long book is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and shorter reads are more your thing. Zoe is used to a life in New York where her mom was always at work (as an actress) and their maid Ethel does just about everything, including teaching Zoe how to French braid hair. Her cousin Maggie describes Zoe as "bubbly, perky, and too dramatic" in the first book in the series, Fight for Life. That should sum Zoe up for you. By the way, Laurie Halse Anderson is an amazing writer. If you couldn't tell by my little paragraph just now, Zoe and Maggie do not exactly get along. Zoe seems so annoying in the first book. But the book Say Good-Bye is from Zoe's point of view, and in that book Maggie seems way more annoying than Zoe. That's truly awesome.
4. Juniper from Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. Were you guys all expecting me to say Silena Beauregard? Silena may be a daughter of Aphrodite, but she's not that sassy. Honestly, this one was a hard one. But I concluded that the sassiest character from Percy Jackson was Juniper because she's always worrying about Grover, oftentimes when it's kind of silly.
5. Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Esme was willing to do anything if it was "in". Heck, she was even willing to smoke, even though she knew it was unhealthy! She may not sound sassy when I explain it like that, but read the books and you'll see what I mean.
6. Bess Marvin from Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene. Bess is always trying to lose weight. She's the cutest little thing in the world. She definitely seems like the girly-girl out of the group. Oh, and by the way, if you haven't yet, you need to read the Nancy Drew books, the really old ones from the 1930's. They're the most darling thing! I love them!
7. Corey from All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn. Corey is a drama queen. That's all there is to it. Who else could have so expertly imitated ghosts, so much that... now, I don't want to ruin the story for you! You should read it yourself! (That is, if you haven't already)
8. Lizabeth Merchant from The Girls of Lighthouse Lane by Erika Tamar. I like old stories, not that these are old, but these take place quite a few years ago, so if you're into that sort of thing these are awesome. Lizabeth is always worried about what people think about her. She thinks what Rose's mom does is disgusting (read the books to find out), and in the third book, all she wants to do is become Strawberry Queen. By the way, the third one is so good! Just saying.
9. Rebecca Baxter from Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter. Bex is just kind of what you see when you picture that sassy spy. Let's put it this way: Bex is just cool.
10. Sal from The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw. Sal quite reminds me of Corey from All the Lovely Bad Ones. Both awesome ghost stories, but let me just say this: this book is awesome. Quite a must-read.
11. Miggery Sow from The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCammilo. Miggery Sow was not at all the flashiest character. But, the flashiest aren't always the sassiest. Miggery Sow always had that in her. She was going to grow up and go to the palace and be a princess.
12. Susan from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. This one I think you kind of have to read the whole series to understand. That's all I'm saying. (By the way, these books are awesome. Everyone should read these.)
13. Mrs. Finnemore from Theodore Boone by John Grisham. I do have a tendency for picking the books that no one knows about, don't I? Well, let's face it, April was never a girly-girl and never will be a girly-girl. Her mother, however, was quite the drama queen. But, I mean, in the second book she did have a reason.
14. Dame Olga from Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I was going to say Hattie, but, let's face it, Dame Olga is far more sassy than her daughter is. Well, the whole family is sassy, but Dame Olga is the worst. Let's just leave it there.
15. Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games. I could name just about every Capitol person in existence, but let's let Effie represent them all. Effie sums up everything a Capitol person could be. She's always looking her best, and no one loves manners more than Effie.
Well, what a list! If you got nothing out of that at least you know what books you should read. Goodbye, friends!
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