The Juliet Club (pgs.71-100).

Summary: Sarah and Annie finally received an email from Kate.  She told them about Tom, their other friend, Giacomo, and more.  Unfortunately, Sarah and Annie, thought the email was uninformative, incomplete and it had details that they weren't even interested in.  It didn't help their bet at all.  Kate, Tom, Lucy, and Kate's father, all went to a reception party.  At that party was Kate's dad's worst enemy of all time- Professoressa Marchese, who would also be the professor of the seminar.  Her dad said that everything he did, Marchese would try and do it better and it led to her being famous.  He said it’s like she follows what he does. 
                 Silvia, the mayor's daughter, is also there and the mayor is too. They got into an argument because Silvia showed up at the party wearing an inappropriate dress that showed her stomach.  She also had a tattoo on her stomach. Later, Silvia noticed Kate, Lucy and Tom and greeted them, kind of rudly.  While they were talking, Giacomo walks into the ballroom, making an entrance and greets them. Kate’s father joins in too.  Soon, they all meet Professoressa Marchese, where she and Kate’s dad make comments at each other.  Kate’s dad introduces Kate to her and Marchese introduces her son to them, which is Giacomo!  
Quote:"...this alien who said everything with a sneer and eyed him disdainfully and made him feel like the oldest, most ridiculous man on earth"(Harper 82).
Reaction: Silvia used to be daddy's little girl, but now she turned into an "alien" with an attitude all the time.  Now she disrespects her father and that is not right.  It is rude because she has no right to speak like that to him. 

The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper (pgs. 1-70)

Summary:Kate, the main character, has two best friends-Sarah and Annie.  They have all grown up together and are now in the 11th grade.  One thing her friends talk a  lot about is Love and Kate finds it kind of annoying after what Jerome, her ex-boyfirend did to her.  After the break-up, Kate is very serious for days and there is no smile shown on her face.  Kate does like Shakespeare, though and other english topics.  She got that from her father who is a very passionate lover,but her mother is a serious person who sees no point in having Valentines Day.  Her mother deals with the law subjects and conferences for her job.  Her parents are divorced though.
                  Jerome and Kate met in Chemistry class, where they fell in love and found out that they had the same interests.  Kate thought they had fun together despite the fact that Sarah and Annie thought the relationship was boring and that Kate needed to find someone a little more fun.  As time passed they went to school dances together and Jerome asked her to the prom.  One day, though, Jerome called Kate on the phone to tell her he wanted to break-up, he would like her to give back the ruby ring he gave to her, and that he was taking Ashley Lawson to the prom instead.  Kate decided to retire from love.  Soon she got over him and found out from her father she won a writing competition.  So now she got invited to go to Verona, Italy to attend some seminars on Shakespeare for a month. Her father went with her.  Sarah and Annie told Kate that now she could finally fall in love and that she was going to for certain.  Kate assured them that she wasn't going to fall in love.  Sarah is certain that she will, but Annie now says that she won't.  They bet on it.
                  Kate gets to Italy and she immediately makes a friend, Lucy.  They decide to go to see the House of Juliet-the balcony and more.  There they see students and tourists from all around the world.  Kate looks around and her eyes meet with a boys'.  She feels as if the boy tries to get attention, but yet she keeps turning around to look at him.  She is still certain she wont fall in love.  Lucy has spoken with him a lot, but she hardley talks to him.  His name is Giacomo and their eyes keep meeting.
Quote:"But as they crossed the courtyard, Kate couldn't resist looking back over her shoulder"(Harper 70).
Reaction:Kate just keeps looking back at Giacomo.  I think that she likes him, but she can't admit it to herself.