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The Whirligig Sparknotes
A girl named Steph, who lives in Weeksboro, Maine, is getting help from her friend to get a boyfriend. Alexandra, one of Steph's best friends, thinks she needs to have a boyfriend, like everyone else in the eighth grade. They find a whirligig they believe has magical properties and try to wish for a boyfriend on it. Brent's whirligig impacted the girls because it gave them hope that there was some magic out there working to help their "wishes" or desires come true. The girls believe the whirligig gives them luck and when they see it, they will be lucky.

Brent is offered a penance by Lea's mother, in order to serve his "consequence" of the accident. He has to travel to each of the four corners of the USA and build a whirligig. He accepts and starts his journey in Washington, building his first whirligig there. As he struggles to figure out how to start building his whirligig, he began to understand the importance of what he was doing and why Lea's mother asked him to do it. Brent wasn't as confused and angry as he was earlier in the chapter, almost as the journey …show more content…
He hates everything about the violin and wishes he could just quit. On a camping trip with his family, Tony finds the whirligig Brent made of the girl playing the harp. Tony's mother points out how the whirligig is always playing and he should practice like that too. Even more annoyed and angry, Tony messes up at a recital and is given the permission of his teacher to take a "rest". The teacher relates the whirligig to Tony because if the whirligig never stopped spinning to take a rest, it would break. The same would happen to Tony with his violin, no matter how much he was told to practice more, he needed a
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