Summary

Chapter Six. Luke manages to get by. He is careful to avoid lingering in the hallways, sits down immediately when he enters a classroom, and makes certain not to sit at the wrong tables during meals. He is unable to avoid jackal boy at lights-out, but finds he can survive that the bullying sessions since they only happen once a day. One day Luke realizes that, with the exception of jackal boy, he can’t tell the other boys in the school apart. During breakfast he hears one boy call another boy “Spence,” and tries to memorize what Spence looks like. That day at lunch he watches as Spence takes his seat, but then hears another boy call him “Ted.” At dinner, Luke hears someone else call the boy “E.J.” Even though Luke is almost positive it is the same boy...