Cynthia Ryland wrote a realistic story called " Checkouts ", it is about a girl that just move to Cincinnati and falls in love with a grocery bag boy at the supermarket. My opinion about this story is that because of the shyness of the characters, the story starts getting tedious. The characters are the main part of the story and in checkouts the author wants to make the reader see that when teenagers are I love with each other they get really shy. The example in the story would be when the girl enters to the supermarket and sees the boy but then she ignores him, and checks out in a different line. Because of neither of them talked, interacted, or even dare to see each other the story starts getting slow. The story does not have an exiting climax. A example would be the boy, all days daydreaming to see again with the red hair and big orange bow girl. But when the day did come he didn't even tried to say a word to her. So my conclusion is that " Checkouts " is a good story that represents how people act in front of the opportunity they have dreamed of, but as in this story it never happens something between the characters so the story starts getting boring and the action of the plot really slow.