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 12-19Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 12 Summary
At a school assembly, the kids learn they must form teams and do community service projects—bring toys to a children’s hospital, send sports equipment to Kenya, clean a city park, and so on.
Windy gets Lucy to be on her team. Windy will find a third person, but Lucy doubts anyone wants to work with her. Windy’s excited about the project, saying that “we’re going to change the world,” but Lucy doubts her own ability to affect others: “changing the world is a tall order for someone who is just trying to survive each day” (79).
Chapter 13 Summary
In language arts class, Ms. Fleming asks Lucy to begin reading from a short story. Lucy has to count all the words and the number of letters in each before she reads anything, and she tries to get out of the task, but the teacher insists, so she reads a paragraph at a time and then halts while she counts the next paragraph’s words. Windy volunteers to take over the reading, which gets Lucy off the hook.
The class breaks into groups; Lucy’s group elects her secretary and she ends up doing all the work, answering the study questions while they talk about boys.
