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1.) Too fantastical 2. ) Too fantastical. 3.) Character reaction. 4.) Not an outcome. 5.) Too fantastical. 6.) Plot happens. 7.) Too fantastical. 8.) Doesn't describe why we would expect a different outcome. 9.) Character reaction. 10.) Character reaction. 11.) Character reaction.


* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Naturally when you make a person without much backstory and bring them to life, especially as a teen, they'll start to question the holes in logic in their life such as why they haven't heard from their parents.
** Dany tries to make a body for Neptune but since it's one without a head it's just lump of flesh whom Neptune can barely control with his powers. Ultimately Dany and Madison are forced to bury it in the backyard of Dany's house.
** After Dany reveals to Madison that she created her, Madison naturally doesn't take it well since her life was fabricated up to that point and rejects Dany's offer to make her parents.
** When Madison decides to go off on her own, she tries to go to stay at a hotel, but they won't allow minors without parents. So she bums at a "Wol-Mart" but is eventually found by security. After the police find she has no parents (Madison just states they abandoned her), she's put up into a foster home.
** One of the first people that that Dany brings to life (albeit accidentally) is the head of Prince Neptune, an anime character from a Sailor Moon-type series. The thing is though, in-universe, he's an ''anti-villain'' at best and doesn't understand that Dany's world isn't the same as the one he comes from.
** After battle with Neptune, the school ends up wrecked and the student are relocated to other schools until repairs are finished.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Similar to Madison, Clone Dany becomes more sentient as the story goes on and states she'll eventually have to leave Dany sooner or later to live her own life.
** Madison gives Penelope chocolate, which as Dany says, is poisonous to dogs. It ends up causing Penelope to magically vomit.
** After Nick is depowered and the matter with Penelope settled, the principal of the school hosting the party suspends him for all the trouble he cause. Magic use or no, he was still being destructive.
** At the end, Madison tries to let her foster parents take in Penelope. Even when her sister tries to help convince them. The couple refuse since well, 1) magical dog having just been the cause of all the mayhem at the party and 2) as they state they already have three kids to take care of so a dog would just be another mouth to feed.
** Madison asks Dany if she'll recreate Cloney after Nick has accidentally wished her out of existence. But Dany refuses to since it wasn't right of her in the first place. Though is no less sadden by her loss.



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Released in 2018 by Scholastic. It got a sequel in 2019 subtitled "Back to the Drawing Board" in which Dany gets into further shenanigans when she tries to makes a duplicate of herself to help with her schoolwork. And things getting more complicated when a magic dog runs amuck through town.

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Released in 2018 by Scholastic. It got a sequel in 2019 subtitled "Back ''Back to the Drawing Board" Board'' in which Dany gets into further shenanigans when she tries to makes a duplicate of herself to help with her schoolwork. And things getting more complicated when a magic dog runs amuck through town.

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It's true there is likely going to be a fourth and final book that will be released on Early 2024.


A third and supposedly final book, ''Third Time's the Charm'' was released in August 2021. This one follows up on a plot point in the second book of Danny's notebook going haywire after she tried to make a duplicate of it after her mother took it away from her. The book somehow transport Dany and Madison into alternate world where the two are now twins and attending a prestigious school where they meet another girl, Amara. The two have to find out what's going on an set things back to normal. [[https://oomscholasticblog.com/post/get-sneak-peek-making-friends-third-times-charm?linkId=124084564 Here's a preview]].

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A third and supposedly final book, ''Third Time's the Charm'' was released in August 2021. This one follows up on a plot point in the second book of Danny's notebook going haywire after she tried to make a duplicate of it after her mother took it away from her. The book somehow transport Dany and Madison into alternate world where the two are now twins and attending a prestigious school where they meet another girl, Amara. The two have to find out what's going on an set things back to normal. [[https://oomscholasticblog.com/post/get-sneak-peek-making-friends-third-times-charm?linkId=124084564 Here's a preview]].
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The fourth and supposedly final book, ''Together Forever'', will be released sometime in early 2024.

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* GainaxEnding: You’ll probably have seen the ending above, so you know how the book ends. It took this troper multiple read-through to understand what the heck just happened… Luckily there is a 4th book set for release in August 2023, which will hopefully clear some stuff up.
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changing some information for the versions of the books that I got :P


The story follows a girl named Danielle aka Dany who just has recently started the 8th grade, but is having trouble fitting in. The friends she used to hang out with are in different classes and not on the same lunch period and she feels like she's growing apart from them. Things change when her aunt Elma passes away and the family rummage through her house for anything valuable. Dany finds a batch of sketchbooks and manage to claim one (after her greedy aunt and uncle snatch up the majority of them). While milling around in her room, she sketches one of her favorite anime characters in and finds that it brings him come to life, revealing the sketchbook to be magical. Deciding to push her luck a bit, she creates a friend of her own, Madison Fontane, a super cool friend from New York.

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The story follows a girl named Danielle aka Dany "Dany" Radley who just has recently started the 8th 7th grade, but is having trouble fitting in. The friends she used to hang out with are in different classes and not on in the same lunch period and she feels like she's growing apart from them. Things change when her aunt Elma passes away and the family rummage through her house for anything valuable. Dany finds a batch of sketchbooks and manage to claim one (after her greedy aunt and uncle snatch up the majority of them). While milling around in her room, she sketches one of her favorite anime characters in and finds that it brings him come to life, revealing the sketchbook to be magical. Deciding to push her luck a bit, she creates a friend of her own, Madison Fontane, Fontaine, a super cool friend from New York.



* AbusiveParents: Somewhat played for laughs with Dany's uncle, Dave, who has a bit of a HairTriggerTemper and isn't exactly a great father to his son. During the kid's sixth birthday party, when his son states he doesn't like a toy car he got as a gift. Dave response is to ''grab the birthday cake and throw it to ground''. Not like the kid was being bratty, it was just a blunt response (the aunt who gave it to him ask what wrong with it and he stated that he just liked trains is all) and again, ''a six year old''. Naturally Dany's mother and aunt call him out on it. The second book does reveal he has a bit of a FreudianExcuse due to ''his'' upbringing by his father whom is overly strict and critical (Even Dany thinks her grandfather's a bit of a jerk).

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* AbusiveParents: Somewhat played for laughs with Dany's uncle, Dave, who has a bit of a HairTriggerTemper and isn't exactly a great father to his son. During the kid's sixth birthday party, when his son states he doesn't like a toy car he got as a gift. Dave gift, Dave's response is to ''grab the birthday cake and throw it to ground''. Not like the kid was being bratty, it was just a blunt response (the aunt who gave it to him ask what wrong with it and he stated that he just liked trains is all) and again, ''a six year old''. Naturally Dany's mother and aunt call him out on it. The second book does reveal he has a bit of a FreudianExcuse due to ''his'' upbringing by his father whom is overly strict and critical (Even Dany thinks her grandfather's a bit of a jerk).

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