![]() ![]() ![]() Her decision to take the job (partly because things are difficult between her and Nick’s father) triggers the first major change in Nick’s life: the realization that his family is no longer a unified one. Narration also reveals that Nick’s mother loves horses, and has been invited to work with high-level racing horses in another state. Narration reveals that Nick’s father is a writer, and has published a dictionary of unusual but meaningful words, a dictionary that he wants Nick to memorize (throughout the book, examples of those words and their definitions appear in the text). ![]() ![]() Nick’s story begins on a day when everything seems to be relatively normal: he sleeps late, after playing on-line soccer into the night his parents are arguing and he is caught daydreaming in school. A "/" in the summary or a quote indicates a line break within a stanza a "//" in the summary or a quote indicates a break between stanzas. Dialogue poems, of which there are several, are printed with Nick’s dialogue in regular typeset, with the words of other speakers printed in italics. Most material is present tense, with the exception of remembered material, which is in past tense. The entire book is written, except where noted, in blank verse. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Alexander, Kwame. ![]()
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