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Meet Melinda's First Encounter With No Face

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Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of high school at Merryweather High, And it does not go so well. All her old friends won't talk to her, because she called the cops at the end-of-the-summer party . Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda wishes she could tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. English class is taught by a woman with "no face", which Melinda calls Hairwoman. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anyone to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with mashed potatoes and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck stops her, and since she can't tell him …show more content…

One day, Melinda tries to run away from Mr. Neck, and she finds a janitor's closet that hasn't been used in a long time. She thinks it's a perfect hiding spot and she also cleans it up after school. Later that day, Melinda went to a pep rally with Heather ,even though she didn’t want to go. Some girls behind her asks if she the one that called that cops at Kyle Rodgers end-of-the-summer party. At dinner one night, Melinda's parents get on Melinda's back about her grade and that she can do better. After Melinda leaves her parents start to fight. Melinda decides to at least try. She starts focusing in science class. Her science teacher, Ms. Keen, is very smart. So is David Petrakis, Melinda's lab partner. Mr. Stetman, Melinda's algebra teacher, is also very smart, but he can't convince the class why they need to know algebra. Heather joins a group, called the Marthas. The Marthas make Heather decorate the teachers lounge for Thanksgiving. Heather convinces Melinda to help her. When Marthas come into the lounge to see what Heather did, they aren't happy to see Melinda. Heather says Melinda is the first person at school to talk to her. Siobhan (one of the Mathas) says, "She's

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