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And Then, Boom!
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Pages 66-120Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide contains descriptions of poverty, emotional abuse, illness, and death.
Note: These pages contain the poems “The Grower,” “My Walk to School,” “Hakeem,” “FARBAL,” “Math Matters,” “Juste Horrible,” “The Share Table and Corner Store,” “The Reticulated Python,” “Not Enough, But Plenty,” “Villains at the Table,” “Fair and Square,” “Sitgen,” “Tummy Troubles,” “Hunger,” “Wasted,” “Bowling Ball Pyramid,” “Sick and Tired,” “I Love Basketball,” “What the Game’s About,” “The Turd,” “Happy Farts,” “Out for Supper,” “Worse Than Hunger,” “All I Need,” “Last Night,” “Nighttime’s For Wishes and Dreams,” “Everyone Has A One Day,” “The Return of Thanos,” “Raven,” “Seeds of Hope,” “Screaming,” “Three Kinds of People,” “I Am Falcon,” “The Hug Sandwich,” and “Grandmum Got Her One Day.”
Pages 66-120 Summary
Grandmum plans to plant a new garden in the small yard. She uprooted her prized rose bush from the Gingerbread House and took it with her. Now she can replant it. These days, Joey’s walk to school is less idyllic than when he lived in the Gingerbread House. The sidewalks are damaged, and many houses and businesses are boarded up. Joey finds the walk scary by himself but feels more comfortable when he walks with Nick and Hakeem.
Joey has known Hakeem since kindergarten, when Hakeem caught him falling from the climbing rings. Hakeem has always been there for Joey. Joey is now a recipient of FARBAL (an acronym for “Free And Reduced Breakfasts And Lunches”), and although he feels ashamed of receiving this benefit, he knows that he would go hungry without it.
Mrs. Swan, Joey’s math teacher, has noticed that it is embarrassing for children entitled to FARBAL to have to announce to the cafeteria workers that they get their meals for free. Mrs. Swan changed the code in the computer system so that a swipe of students’ ID cards automatically triggers the notification. Joey sees this is as an example of the way that math can solve problems.
