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Chapter 11

Graduation

August

The next morning, Mr. Tushman and some others went back to the forest. They looked for my hearing aids, but they didn't find anything.

"The school will pay for new hearing aids," Mr. Tushman told me. "And we want to find those boys, too. Maybe one of them has your hearing aids."

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Chapter 10

The Camp

August

Every year, in spring, the fifth grade of Beecher Prep goes away for three days and two nights to a camp in Pennsylvania. The kids sleep in cabins in the forest. There are campfires to cook on and long walks in the forest.

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Chapter 9

The School Play

Miranda

My dad left my mom the summer before I went to high school. I didn't see him much after that, and I didn't really want to go to summer camp. But I did go, and it wasn't fun.

After I got home, I called Ella, but I didn't call Via. Ella is an easy friend. She doesn't talk about families and problems, just music and clothes. Via is different, and I didn't want to talk about my parents and their problems. Ella liked my pink hair and my new clothes. I knew that Via didn't.

In high school, Via and I didn't talk much; we just said "Hello."

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Chapter 8

Hearing Aids

August

At school, the "war" went on into February. Only one or two kids spoke to Jack and me. We got a lot of notes.

There were notes to Jack:
You smell like cheese.
Nobody likes you.

And notes to me:
Freak.
Get out of our school.

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Chapter 7

The Violin

Justin

I started going out with Olivia two months ago, and I really like her. She told me about August before I went to her house. But the first time I saw him was still a big surprise. He was with a friend, Jack. I shook their hands and tried not to look at August's face.

"Is that a machine gun?" Jack asked me. He was looking at my violin case.

"Are you Via's boyfriend?" asked August. Olivia pushed his hat over his eyes. We left the room, and I heard them laughing.

"What do you think?" Olivia asked.

"About August?"

"Yes."

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Chapter 6

Friends and Enemies

Jack

In the middle of last summer, Mr. Tushman called my parents. I heard Mom talking to him.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"They have a new kid at school," Mom said. "He doesn't know the school, and they want someone to help him."

"Why me?" I asked.

"Because you're a nice kid," said Mom. "And this boy has something wrong with his face."

"No, I can't do it, Mom!" I said.

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Chapter 5

''He's a nice kid''

Summer

Some kids are so strange.

"Why are you friends with 'the freak?'" they ask me.

"He's a nice kid," I say. "And he's not a freak."

"You're a good person," said Ximena. "I couldn't do that."

"Did Mr. Tushman ask you to be his friend?" asked Charlotte.

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Chapter 4

My Brother, August

Via

August is at the center of the family, and we all understand that. I'm OK with it. I know that August is special. I know that his face hurt after plastic surgery, and he needed to sleep. So, I always played quietly. I wanted Mom and Dad to watch me play soccer. But usually it wasn't possible, because they were taking August to the hospital or to a new doctor.

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Chapter 3

Halloween

August

Mom always asks me how something feels: between one and ten. It started in the hospital two years ago, after some surgery on my mouth. They took some bone from my leg to put in my face-to make me look more ordinary. So, my face hurt, and my leg hurt, and I couldn't open my mouth to talk. ‘One’ meant it hurt just a little, and ‘ten’ meant it hurt a lot.

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Chapter 2

School

August

I was nervous on my first day of school. Mom and Dad were nervous, too. They took a lot of pictures of me and Via. Via is fourteen, and it was her first day, too, at her new high school.

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Chapter 1

Why I didn’t go to school

August

I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I do ordinary things.

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