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Paul's Choices

Early in novel, Paul moved from Lake Windsor Middle School to Tangerine because of the sinkhole. Once he was there, he chose to try out for the Tangerine soccer team. He was happy because he couldn't play soccer at Lake Windsor Middle School, because Mrs. Fisher signed an IEP and the soccer coach said that the insurance wouldn’t allow Paul to play because it was dangerous. He had a new chance at the new school to play soccer

In the middle, Paul's choice was to not tell his mother and father that what Erik did bad. Erik made trouble to paul first then author started to join and they carried a black jack that they used to hurt people. Paul told on Erik and Arthur for robbing people homes and for hitting a guy named Luis


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