Summary

In Chapter 5, although he had bigger plans for himself, Dell Duke, Willow’s counselor, wound up in agricultural California dealing with troubled kids. As the newest counselor, he has been assigned the kids the other two counselors don’t want. He’s imitated the retired counselor’s idea of putting the kids into categories, but had no intention of doing as much work as his predecessor. His system is called the Dell Duke Counseling System where he put his students into four groups of strange: misfits, oddballs, lone wolves, and weirdoes. Instead of labeling his professional files with these titles, he’d given each category a number and color to represent it. When Willow appeared in his office one day, however, Dell found she defied his attempt to categorize her.

In Chapter 6, Willow quickly decided Dell was not healthy and wished she could...