Tamaya went to lunch and learned that Chad was missing. Students informed her that he had wanted to beat Marshall up after school, but Marshall lied and said he did not know anything about Chad’s disappearance. Headmistress Thaxton came into the room and asked if anyone knew where Chad was. Marshall went to his class and felt anxious about running into Chad. However, her hand started bleeding and she was sent to the nurse’s office without getting to finish her assignment. Tamaya went into class and started working on a writing prompt in which she had to detail how to blow up a balloon with complete precision. Her mother promised to take her to the doctor after school. In the morning, Tamaya woke up with an even worse rash. Professor Alice Mayfair assures the senators that the rapidly growing population of humanity and their need for fuel was a much bigger threat than the ergonyms. Tamaya went inside and cleaned up, but she noticed a strange rash on her hand.īack at the senate committee, Jonathan Fitzman promises the senators that the ergonyms cannot escape the lab to infiltrate the environment because oxygen immediately kills them.
Tamaya picked up a handful of mud and threw it straight at Chad’s face, then she and Marshall ran home. He told Tamaya he was going to beat her up next. Marshall admitted he was lost and went to climb up a rock to get his bearings.Ĭhad found the pair of them and started beating Marshall up. Deep in the woods, Tamaya fell down next to a strange pile of fuzzy mud. Unbeknownst to Tamaya, Marshall had been being bullied by Chad for weeks and Chad had announced his intentions to fight Marshall on the street corner after school. She was not allowed to walk home alone, so she went with him. He told her he was taking a shortcut through the woods. Tamaya later walked home with her seventh-grade neighbor, Marshall, who had been moody. Jonathan Fitzman had invented a new form of life called ergonyms, which were a single-celled organism that could be rapidly and exponentially reproduced and then burnt as a clean fuel that could replace gasoline. Senate Committee on Energy and Environment had held a secret hearing about SunRay Farm and Biolene. He and her friends laughed at her and called her a goody-two-shoes.Ī year prior, the U.S.
Tamaya scolded him and told him that no one was allowed in the woods. Chad, the coolest boy, told the girls that he had been in the woods the night before when he spotted a mad hermit who lived with a pack of wolves.
She and her best friends sat with a group of older boys. The first chapter introduces Tamaya, a fifth grader at Woodridge Academy in Pennsylvania. Alternating chapters show different perspectives and various epistolary documents. The novel is narrated in omniscient third-person narration in past tense. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Sachar, Louis.
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