Chapters 1-3 Summary

Chapter 1, "You Grow Up," discusses growing up with a kid and never really noticing him. You see him around all the time, but you do not even know his name. "He's part of the scenery," the author writes, "like the parked cars and the green plastic cans on trash day." As you pass through first and second grades, you see this kid regularly but you still do not know his name. You might go sledding one winter day and see this kid screaming with joy as he goes down the hill. That might annoy you because he seems to be having even more fun than you are. Anyway, you still do not know his name, until one day someone says a name. At that moment, you just know the name must belong to that boy. The name is Zinkoff. In Chapter...