Original sentence: A handsome and confident teen, he is a school star athlete but struggles academically.Brick, the youngest child, is a very bright but socially awkward seven-year-old son, who was given a "cool name" in the vain hope that he'd be a cool kid.Frankie and her husband Mike, a manager at a quarry, have lived their whole lives in Orson, a fictitious small town in Indiana.He usually appears at home wearing only gym shorts and regards any task or chore asked of him to be an enormous imposition.Sue, the middle child and only daughter, wears braces, part of the reason for her almost neurotic self-consciousness
Edited sentence: Axl is a star athlete, a key member of his school's football and basketball teams, but a struggling student.Brick is her incredibly smart but socially awkward seven-year-old son, who was given a "cool name" in the vain hope that he'd be a cool kid.Frankie and her husband Mike have lived their whole lives in Orson, a fictitious small town in Indiana.Mike is a manager at a quarry and has a sarcastic streak and a tendency toward brutal honesty.She may not be a high-powered career woman, but when it comes to her family, she goes to just about any length to hold things together.Sue, her awkward middle teenage daughter, struggles to get into something — anything — she tries out for, yet she remains encouraged and optimistic regardless of how often she fails.With kids like hers, she often needs to do so