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Chapter 1, Ready?

• Chapter 1, Ready

• Eddie Ryan has turned 13 and overnight witnesses the horrors of becoming a teenager.

• He finishes the eighth grade at St. Bastion Catholic Grammar School.

• Ambivalently, he faces high school at St. Bremmer Catholic School.
• His friends, Tim and Tom, are both going to Eddie's high school, along with Felix Lindor, the "filth fiend."

• Entrance exams are given to attend St. Bremmer's.

• The entrance exams place students in their appropriate class level.
• Timmy Heidi, shocks the grammar schools nuns when he receives the highest entrance exam score.

• Eddie and his friends live in the "short term," concerned only for the day-to-day things.

• This chapter gives a glimpse of what it was like to go to a Catholic school during the 1950s.

Chapter 2, Bremmer High School

• Chapter 2, Bremmer High School

• Dress codes are particularly strict at St. Bremmer.

• Teachers are brothers from St. Bremmer Religious Order...

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