The book This Journal Belongs to Ratchet is written by Nancy J. Cavanaugh. This book is about a young girl who would give up just about anything to be a normal girl, with a normal family, name, clothes, friends, and school life. Ratchet, a homeschooled girl, who helps her dad work in the garage on cars, tries to fit in with the kids on her street, her dad makes that very hard for her. Ratchets dad believes in saving trees and is overall echo friendly but when the local park is going to be turned into a mall he objects and gets himself into community service time. They set him up to teach a class on building go carts, the boys in the class make fun of Ratchet and her dad. One boy reaches out to her and asks her to help with his go cart. They become really good friends and work together to help save the park. I really loved the plot to this book, I really enjoyed this book overall mostly because of its format. This book is written out like Ratchets homeschool assignments, either a poem, journal, or a news article. I liked this feature because it was different from any books I have read, I think it's meant to be different because it shows how Ratchet is different and the book is written in a different format that other books. I know that this book is realistic fiction because Ratchet and other characters don't have any powers, they aren't any talking or inanimate objects that take on human traits. I think this book is really a book written for girls. I think this because it's about a girl who has a crush and what's to know if he likes her back, and I think that it is more a girl centered topic, this would be a good book for 6th or 7th graders because some kids might not understand global warming and this book focus on global warming and the problem. One internal conflict is when Ratchet makes a decision to ask her dad abort the box that she suspected that has something to do with her mom. She considered not asking but quickly changed her mind repeatedly. One external conflict is when Ratchet is looking for the box but finds out her dad moved what was inside it and threw away the box, she fought verbally with him multiple times.