Feeling Sorry for Celia- character1

In the book Feeling Sorry for Celia, the main character is Elizabeth Clarry. The book doesn’t really describe what she looks like, but when she meets her pen pal Christina, she says that Elizabeth is really pretty. Also, someone once said that she looked like and elf, because she has really pointy ears. The only makeup she wears is banana-flavored lip gloss, if that even counts as makeup. In her room, she doesn’t have any posters except for one that her mom designed. She has a paper chain made of Christmas cards hanging from her curtain rod and a Little Mermaid quilt cover. Elizabeth’s an only child and has a dog named Lochie. She and her mom live near Double Bay, Australia. Her dad left them when Elizabeth was little and now lives in Canada with his wife and child, Richard Clarry (who is Elizabeth’s half-brother and is only three months younger than her.) When her dad visits, he always take her out to a fancy restaurant and buys her wine to see if Elizabeth can taste the special flavor in it (Elizabeth never really tastes anything in it other than red wine, at least not anything good). They never know what to talk about, so the dinners are always pretty awkward. Elizabeth’s fifteen years old and goes to a Catholic school. She barely ever does her homework, and instead writes papers on why she shouldn’t do it. She loves volleyball and long distance running, and in the book she runs in the Forest Hill half marathon and finishes in the top five! At the beginning of the book, Elizabeth is very shy and self-conscious. Her only friend is Celia Buckley, who someone on their bus described as a “fairy-princess”. Celia is kind of an odd person. She’s running away all the time and loves to do adventurous (which are mostly dangerous) things. When Celia runs away, Elizabeth’s usually by herself, an outcast of the school. She’s also a very sarcastic person always saying things like “I think it’s stupid to spoil a good book by writing an essay on it, so I’m not going to write one” or “the guy next to me just coughed and I saw a little splat of gooey green stuff land on my math book, so I am not going to do math”. Throughout the entire book, she’s a really funny and interesting character.