50 pages • 1 hour read
Jason ReynoldsLu
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
How does Lu react when he learns that his parents are having another child? Why does he react this way? How do his feelings about this news change over the course of the text?
What is the significance and importance of names in this story? How do names, ones that characters choose for themselves and ones that others choose for them, affect the characters?
Lu’s track team is called the Defenders. How do Lu and his teammates defend one another?
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