Chapters Thirteen through Fifteen Summary and Analysis

Claudia is very shy, never participating in group activities until the day Thomaso, Boo and Lori put their entire bodies into what was to have been a quiet art time. As they're washing up later, Thomaso asks if she's been relegated to this class only because she's pregnant. That afternoon, Claudia opens up some to Torey, saying that she'd had sex only once, with a fifteen-year-old boy named Randy who'd promised she couldn't become pregnant until she'd developed breasts. She ends by asking Torey what she was supposed to do about a baby when she still herself nothing more than a baby.

In chapter 14, Lori plays a game with cards made by Torey. The object of the game is to match up cards, each with letters on them though the letters are different sizes and...