![]() ![]() ![]() When he brings Jessica her homework on a day she is absent, the girl poignantly opens up to him and he, in turn, shares his secret thoughts and superhero fantasies with her. Tom, too, initially keeps his distance, though he (unlike Jeff) holds her hand during class prayer time. None of the students attempts to get to know Jessica. "I remember wondering how someone looking like that could even be alive," Tom says the first time he sees her. Catherine's when she moves to town to undergo skin grafts at a nearby hospital. Jessica, who has been badly burned in a fire, joins their class at St. ![]() But it isn't Courtney who needs rescuing. Tom has a crush on Courtney, a beautiful and popular classmate, and he imagines himself as a superhero who can rescue her from danger. My mother says it's because I don't 'get out there.' ") The seventh-grade narrator's only friend is Jeff, who seems angry quite often since his father moved out. ("People don't really talk to me much in school or notice me. Abbott's (the Secrets of Droon series) stirring novel centers on Tom Bender, who describes himself as a "sweaty, fat kid" who feels invisible much of the time. ![]()
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