Summary

In “April,” Claudia claimed that Daddy’s color was forest green and Michael’s color was bark brown, together representing the tree on which she leaned in times of need. In “The Before,” Claudia returned home to her worried mother. She told her that she had to jump out of Monday’s bathroom mirror and asked her about the last time she had seen Monday. Claudia used the key from her journal to open Monday’s. She opened it and read an entry where Monday called her stupid for not being good at reading.

In “The After,” Michael saw Claudia with Monday’s The Flowers in the Attic book and told her that it was about kids whose mom and grandma locked them in the attic and they started to go crazy. Claudia returned the book to Ms. Paul and asked to see...