Chapter 4-5 Summary

Chapter 4. On Halloween, Gram leaves the younger children home alone while she goes to their teacher conferences and Dicey goes to school. When Dicey comes home, she learns that the younger kids were caught in the attic and Gram is angry with them. At dinner, Gram forgives them and lets the episode pass. However, Gram refuses to tell them what the teachers said until she can speak to Dicey about it during an outing to buy winter clothing. Dicey and Gram spend that Saturday morning buying jeans and yarn for sweaters for all the kids. Over lunch, Gram tells Dicey what the teachers said. James' teacher is concerned that James' work has gone down since the beginning of the school year. Sammy's teacher thinks he is an angel. Maybeth's teacher wants to hire a tutor to help Maybeth. Dicey promises to...