![]() ![]() Still, the three weeks that he gets to know Jessica change his life a little bit. When Tom has the chance to do the right thing, he tries, even if he's not perfect. But sometimes those little things are bigger than you think. When she's absent from school, he brings her homework to her house, and he even makes her laugh. The photograph is of Jessica before the fire.) Tom talks with Jessica and treats her like a person when no one else will, even when Jeff and others in class are spreading hateful lies about her. (You will deduce, before Tom finds out, that there is no sister. Maybe she even set the fire that killed her sister, which would make her a murderer. Does she go to this school?" the other kids want to know. When a little photo falls from her notebook, he picks it up. The kids in the class aren't actually mean to her face-they just don't speak with her, really. But I know you will treat her as good children should." Jessica Feeney, she tells them, was badly burned in a fire, and she'll be going for treatments at the hospital in New Haven. Tracey, his seventh grade teacher, announces that a new girl is joining the class. In real life, she's never noticed him, of course. And, in each scenario, in his mind's eye, he rescues Courtney. He envisions himself as a superhero with dumb little powers: he can spin on one foot, has a hand made of glue, can roll uphill. Tom revels in his ongoing, vivid daydreams of driving a fat red Cobra and rescuing popular, pretty classmate, Courtney with his imagined superpowers. Usually, Tom hangs out with his caustic friend, Jeff, who, after his parents' nasty divorce, isn't such a nice person right now. The story is told by Tom, an introverted, pudgy seventh grader at St. So begins the winning narrative of Firegirl. Stuff did get a little crazy for a while, but it didn't last long, and I think it was mostly in my head anyway. She was a girl who came into my class after the beginning of the year and was only there for a couple of weeks or so. If you look at it, nothing much happened. "It wasn't much, really, the whole Jessica Feeney thing. ![]()
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