Chapter 22 Summary

Taylor has to give up her job. With Barbie suddenly gone, she needs to take time off to get Turtle enrolled in school and find a baby-sitter. The agency must let her go since she is on probation, so she gets a job at J. C. Penney's; but she isn't able to pay the electric bill because she needs to buy school clothes.

She is evasive when she talks to her mother. She doesn't want her to know about Barbie and the money. She knows her mother has left her everything she has, so there is no help from that source. Taylor is desperate. She can't make enough at Penney's to pay a babysitter, so Turtle will have to come to the store after school and hang out.

Meanwhile, Alice has an appointment with Annawake to talk about Turtle. They start out amicably...