96 pages • 3 hours read
Stacy McAnultyThe Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 1-11Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 1 Summary
During a thunderstorm when she’s eight, Lucy gets struck by lightning. She survives, but suddenly she’s a math genius. She can multiply large numbers without even trying; she also knows the day of the week for any day you name, be it in 1901 or 2055. Numbers for her have various colors and shapes. Lucy remembers every number she works with, including the first several hundred digits in pi. She also has obsessions with counting, doing things multiple times, and using wet wipes to clean surfaces.
Chapter 2 Summary
Lucy, now 12, lives with her grandmother, Nana. Sometimes Nana’s son Paul, a Marine, visits. He gives her a lightning-bolt charm on a necklace. She loves it. Lucy is homeschooled, just earned her high school GED, and got a perfect score on the math SAT. Already she’s taking college classes online, but Nana wants her to go to a regular school first.
