Summary

In Chapter 18, Georgina is finishing her math homework when Mama returns to the car. Mama promised her that things would be better soon. Georgina kept her sarcastic thought to herself. Mama said she was getting close to having enough money to move until the car died. She needed to find someone to fix the car cheap. She put the key in the car and it miraculously cranked. Georgina considered that Mookie might have fixed their car. Georgina didn’t sleep well because she was thinking about Mookie, Carmella, and Willy. She thought of the time she and Luanne shared secrets about the worse thing they had ever done. Luanne threw away an ugly sweater her mom knitted her and Georgina blamed a curse word she wrote on a desk on a different girl. Georgina knew the worse thing she had ever done now was...