Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center (or ILLC)

The Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center (or ILLC) is where almost all of the action in the book takes place. It is a facility for children with disabilities. The physical building itself is not described in detail. The reader only knows that it is a big place and there are several floors. There are a lot of children there, but there is not enough staff to take care of all of them. It holds eighty children, up to age twenty-two. It is a generic stand-in for any other similar home for disabled youths.

Joanne's Apartment

Joanne's apartment is a comfortable place, with all of her collections and books and entertainment to last for the rest of her life. She is living off of a settlement after the accident that crippled her. When she gets a job at ILLC, it is...