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Chapter 1

• Blue Thunderbird pulls into Antler with a trailer attached.

• The trailer is parked at Dairy Maid.

• The sign on the trailer says to see the fattest boy in the world, $2.

• The town quickly begins to line up.
• Miss Myrtie Mae, town librarian and historian, gets in the line.

• Reader learns that Toby's mom is in a singing competition as he talks with Miss Myrtie Mae in line.

• Scarlett asks Toby to take her little sister, Tara, in to see the fattest boy in the world.

Chapter 2

• Paulie Rankin, driver of the Thunderbird, sells tickets to see the boy.

• Paulie introduces the boy as weighing 643 pounds.

• When it is their turn to enter, Tara seems like she needs to use the bathroom but refuses to go.
• The children look around the trailer, noticing a gold box on a shelf.

• Cal asks the fattest boy in the world questions...

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