Beecher Prep

Beecher Prep is a setting in “The Julian Chapter” and “Shingaling.” These two stories focus on students in their fifth-grade year at this school. So, a good deal of the action takes place at the school.

Dannevilliers

Dannevilliers is a setting in “The Julian Chapter.” Dannevilliers was a poor village into which the sewer from larger cities emptied. When the Nazis come for the Jewish students in Grandmère’s school, Tourteau leads her to the safety of Dannevilliers through the sewers. Tourteau’s family hides her in their barn for two years. Grandmère takes Julian and his family to this village to see the barn in which she hid from the Nazis.

Hospital

The hospital is a setting in “Pluto.” Chris is hesitant when his father tells him they are going to the hospital to pick up his mother, who broke her leg in a...