Spring of their sixth repeat
Plot
Abby and her twin sister, Anna are preparing for their Bat Mitzvah. Abby is super stressed and she bombs a math test because of it. Her mom sides with Abby and goes to the school and yells at her teacher. Abby continues on her merry way, preparing for her BM, playing soccer, babysitting and ignoring math. So of course she’s not ready for her next math test. Some kid offers her a study guide for three bucks, which she happily pays for and then studies it all night. When she gets the test the next day, she is shocked to see she didn’t buy a study guide, she bought a copy of the test!
When she gets her test back, she misses one question - and unfortunately so do five other people in her class. And they all missed it in the same way. Her teacher accuses them all of cheating and suspends them all for three days. Abby goes back to the classroom later and tries to tell her the truth but she doesn’t buy it. Abby doesn’t want to tell her mom she’s suspended so she just hides out, but her mom catches her on the last day. She gets grounded for a month, but her mom wants to talk to the teacher again.
The next day Abby catches Mary Anne buying a “study guide” from the same kid, so they both go to the teacher to explain. The teacher believes them this time. Abby feels better and her BM goes off beautifully.
The side story in this book is that all the neighborhood kids are grounded from their televisions, so they all start acting out their favorite tv shows.
Takeaways
I realize it’s probably disrespectful to call a Bat Mitzvah a “BM” but that’s a lot to type out and I’m on my iPad.
Abby doesn’t even tell the BSC about her suspension because she says they “aren’t that close”. Interesting.
I love that the kids all got grounded from their TVs. So they have to actually play. Now kids get grounded from their electronics and have to just watch tv.
I don't understand how a teacher can decide to suspend a group of students for three days. Doesn't something like that need to come from the principal?
Best Character
Probably Mary Anne because she’s incredibly shy but goes to the math teacher and explains what happened and stands up for her and Abby.
Worst Character
That dick who sold them both a copy of the test and lied about it.
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