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1. What happens when Kiana's stepmother drives her to school on the first day of school?

Kiana's stepmother drives her to school. Kiana's half-brother Chauncey is strapped in his car seat in the back seat. He is seven months old, and he cries the entire drive. The more he cries, the faster Kiana's stepmother drives. When she speeds up the driveway and stops to let Kiana out of the car, Chauncey throws up his breakfast.

2. How does Kiana nearly get run down by a pickup?

Kiana sits on a bench and waits for her stepmother to go clean up Chauncey and then return and enroll her in school. While Kiana is waiting, she hears the roar of an engine. A rusty old pickup truck comes sailing up the roadway. The front tire climbs the curb, and the pickup comes right at her. She hurls herself over the back of the bench and out of the way. The truck misses the bency by a centimeter, but the side mirror knocks her book bag off the armrest and sends it flying.

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