Book 2: Chapter 5, Assassin - Limp-Wristed and Shy Summary

Crystal Lil wants to take the children into town to buy them sequined matching costumes. She is over 8 months pregnant with Chick at this time and grabs all of the children to go with her.

Meanwhile, a frustrated man named Vern Bogner is having a bad day. He goes in the parking lot of a shopping center and sees the Binewski children coming out of the van, first the pregnant mother and then Arty and Oly follow out. His immediate reaction is to take his father's gun that he has been unsuccessful with the entire hunting season and shoot the Binewskis, picking them off one by one.

The children are not harmed, but they all roll under cars as soon as the shootings begin. They are taken to the hospital, and...