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 * The Trouble With Lemons Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1 - Tyler and Lymie decide to go to the city's abandoned quarry. Tyler is a very spastic and skinny person and when he jump in, he right away is freezing. There is a flashback about the history of the quarry and how people get arrested for swimming in it. When they are at the quarry, they see a car speed away with a man inside of it. Then, while they are swimming, Tyler bumps into a dead body and freaks out. The body is very pale, slimy, and scary to Tyler. Him and his friend, Lymie jump out of the quarry, Tyler throws up, and then the chapter is over. ****Chapter 2**- Tyler calls the sherif's office to report the dead body in the quarry. Then, Lymie hangs up the phone because he doesn't want the police to know that they were in the quarry. Tyler and Lymie talk about who the dead body might be. Lymie proposes that the dead body is someone who drowned, but only kids go to swim in the quarry. Finally, after a lot of debating, Tyler and Lymie go to bed and Lymie figures that the police will figure it all out and there will be no more problem in the morning.
 * Chapter 3-** Tyler has a very, extremely bad nightmare just when he thought he was done with them. He is woken up by Mrs. Saunders, and she tries to talk to Tyler about his bad dreams and such. Tyler takes a shower, remembering his Mom's old saying to wash away the suds will wash away your troubles. Tyler wakes up Lymie, who never sleeps past eight, slept until eleven o clock. Tyler starts to think about how he first thought of himself as a lemon, and worthless. He then looks in the mirror, and thinks he is starting to resemble his brother, Christopher.
 * Chapter 4**- Lymie and Tyler have a conversation about Mrs. Saunders and how to respect maids, gardeners, and people who work at the private school. They together decide to go to Buster's to try to maybe learn something about the dead body from him. They go to Buster, who is very grumpy and his restaurant is empty for help. He says that he will but only a one way ride for $5 each. They only have $9, but Buster accepts it anyway. At the very end Buster agrees to help and the boys pay him.
 * Chapter 5**- Lymie, Tyler, and Buster drive to the quarry to see what is going on. When they got there, there were police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances. When Tyler saw a woman crying, he started to think back to when he cried at the death of his father. Then, when it seems as if the divers had found the body, they pick it up from the water. Lymie and Tyler find out that the body belonged to BooBoo Anderson, the school janitor. Then, the body is taken to the ambulance and BooBoo Anderson is taken away.
 * Chapter 6**- Tyler starts to have trouble with his home work and stresses out about his science rock assignment. He goes to bed and then goes to school the next day, only to find out that it is due next week. There is a moment of silence at school for BooBoo Anderson on the P.A. Tyler remembers what his room clutter used to be like and how Mrs. Saunders helped him clean it up. Then, he talks to Mary Grace about the janitor's death and Tyler almost tells her about him finding his body. In the end, he walks home with Mary Grace, talking about whoever it was that found the body while it was really Tyler.
 * Chapter 7**- In this chapter, Tyler gets into a big fight with Beaver. Beaver is the big and tough kid in the grade, and when he was challenged by Tyler, it got him very mad. Then, even though Lymie and Mary Grace warned him, he tried to walk home from school. When he got outside, Beaver brutally beat him up. Chuckie, who works at Tyler's house picked him up and saved him. Then, Chuckie took him home and it was alright. Tyler peed in his pants, and it would be really embarrassing is Chuckie didn't save him.
 * Chapter 8-** In this chapter, Chuckie talks to Tyler about some very embarrassing things he had done in his life to make Tyler feel better. Mrs. Saunders lets Chuckie drive Tyler to the allergy doctor. When they are in the doctor's office, they find out he shouldn't get the shot to not risk getting an allergic shock. When they are on their way home, they went to eat and then went to a wrestling show. Tyler couldn't believe how into the show the fans were. When they were driving home, Chuckie told Tyler why Mrs. Saunders told him to pick Tyler up, because BooBoo Anderson was murdured and they might be on the loose.
 * Chapter 9**- Tyler slept in after the wrestling show until eleven o clock. When he went to school, everyone was talking about his fight with Beaver the day before. Lymie and Tyler have a talk about BooBoo Anderson, and it appears that two hitchhikers are possible suspects. Mary Grace is helping Tyler out in science class by keeping him awake but she gets in trouble instead. The police are still investigating in the BooBoo Anderson case.
 * Chapter 10**- Tyler gets into trouble with Mr. Blumburg, the school principal for falling asleep in school and being late for going to a wrestling show. Then, Mr. Blumberg asks how Tyler feels with is Mom always gone when Mrs. Saunders doesn't answer the phone. Then, Tyler is sent to a room in the office where he has to wait until Mrs. Saunders is contacted. While he is there, he overhears a conversation by Jack Robbins and Mark Blumberg, saying that they threw BooBoo into the quarry. When they saw him, Jack and Mark looked like they saw a ghost and seemed scared.
 * Chapter 11**- At the beginning of this chapter, Tyler was running away from school, hoping Jack and Mark don't find him. The next thing he knew, a black car pulled up and Jack told him to get in. Tyler sprinted all the way to his house, set the alarm, and double locked the doors. Then, the black car drove away, with Tyler still worried. Then, a suspicious Mrs. Saunders tells him to take his pills and do his homework, but Tyler is still freaking out and pacing around his room, thinking of what he should do about this.
 * Chapter 12-** At the beginning of this chapter, Mary Grace calls Tyler, asking how he is. Tyler told her that he would be at her house at Eight o clock, making her very scared for him because he said he could only come at night. When he got to her house, they went upstairs and he told her everything from sneaking out to the quarry to Jack and Mark chasing him around. Mary Grace said that she doesn't think that Mark and Jack would have murdered BooBoo Anderson. Mrs. Saunders told Tyler to be home by nine thirty and when he got home, she was very upset with him. Now Mary Grace is the only other person other than Lymie, that knows about the whole BooBoo Anderson deal.
 * Chapter 13**- In this chapter, Lymie and Tyler are jogging laps and Tyler is telling him that he told Mary Grace about what happened. Lymie got very, very mad at him and they started to get into a fight. Then, they goth started to crack up and it was all over and they agreed to leave it aside for a few days. Then when Beaver was captain, he picked both Tyler and then Lymie to be on his team, both of them were very happy. For a few days, Tyler and Lymie will leave the BooBoo Anderson deal behind and try to enjoy their lives.
 * Cha****pter 14**- In this chapter, Mrs. Saunders, Mr. Blumberg, and Tyler have a meeting in his office. At first, they just talk about him falling asleep in Science and his permanent record not being perfect. Then, Tyler starts to bring up the fact that his son Mark and Jack Robbins killed BooBoo Anderson. Mr. Blumberg completely proves him wrong when he says that their staff party was that night, so he would see it. Mr. Blumberg then made a comment about Tyler's Mom caring too much about her career. At the end Tyler is embarrassed, and runs out of the school, weeping and sobing.
 * Chapter 15-** At the beginning of this chapter, Tyler is hiding out near Lymie's house and by the quarry. Then, Chuckie comes and tells Tyler that he has to come home. Chuckie and Tyler get into a deep conversation about Tyler's past, and when Chuckie said that Tyler's dad truly loved him, Tyler was very happy. Then, Chuckie agrees that Tyler can stay with him in his cottage and face Mrs. Saunders the next day. At the end, Tyler is happier than he had been in a while. The next day though, Tyler will have to talk to Mrs. Saunders about what happened in the principal's office.
 * Chapter 16**- In this chapter, Tyler and Chuckie go to Chuckie's cottage. Chuckie tries to make a spaghetti dinner, but ends up burning it. Instead they have bowls of ice cream even though they make Tyler way to hyper. Tyler asks Chuckie if he can sleep in his cottage because he doesn't want to have to face Mrs. Saunders yet. Chuckie lets him and tells him of why Mr. Blumberg is so grumpy, because he doesn't get along at all with his wife and wouldn't let her be an actress. In the end, they make a few jokes with each other and go to bed. Also, Tyler thinks that BooBoo's murder was committed inside of the school's pool.
 * Chapter 17**- In this chapter, Chuckie wakes up Tyler, but when he wakes up he doesn't think he should go to school. Tyler thinks that it is possible that he had been expelled. Chuckie and Tyler talk about comparing his situation to the novel //The Telltale Heart// and Chuckie gives Tyler some encouragement. Tyler will check up on Mary Grace and Lymie to see if they have any ideas on what he should do. In the end, Chuckie makes Tyler go to school, and Tyler is still kind of confused about his situation.
 * Chapter 18**- In this chapter, Tyler sees Mark and Jack at school, looking scared, so he smiles at them a few times. Then, Tyler goes to the library during third period and talk about their plan, while pretending to read books. Mary Grace has a wonderful idea to hang up posters in the school. The sign said that their would be a pool party and to see Jack Robbins for tickets. In the end, they leave the library and will now hang up the signs.
 * Chapter 19**- In this chapter, Tyler is starting to get nervous and impatient when he hears no one talking about the posters. Then, in the cafeteria, everyone starts to talk about the posters, someone even writes EAT ME on the poster. When this is happening, on the P.A., Tyler is called up to the office. When he is there, Mr. Blumberg asks him and Jack a few questions about the posters, and their feelings for each other. Then, when they are back in class, Mr. Blumberg announces that there will be no pool party.
 * Chapter 20**- In this chapter, Tyler walks over to his house with the sound of a lawn mower. Then, he sees Chuckie and very excited, tells him what Lymie, Mary Grace, and him did that day. Chuckie wasn't that big of a fan of their idea, so that kind of bummed out Tyler. Then when Chuckie makes a comment about Tyler peeing in his pants, Tyler retaliates and is very upset with Chuckie. Then, Chuckie gives Tyler a lecture about how not to be so sensitive about little things. Then, when Tyler is mowing the lawn, Chuckie makes another pee comment, and that time, Tyler laughs.
 * Chapter 21**- In this chapter, when Tyler goes inside the house, Mrs. Saunders gave him many hugs, and he apologized a lot. Then, he told her he was going to go to bed early, and he did go in bed. At eight thirty, he was out of the house going to busters, when he was there he saw Jack, all by himself. Jack saw him, and wanted to talk to Tyler in the alley. Then, Jack told him about everything that happened, that they were drinking a lot, and that BooBoo hit his head on the diving board. Then, he said that they dumped him in the quarry. Jack then told Tyler how that was a nightmare that never stops, and he walks over to the police station to confess his crime.
 * Chapter 22**- In this chapter, Tyler wakes up on a park bench, at night, outside the police station, and in the freezing cold. He is outside when a state trooper car pulls up to the station. Then, behind the police, Jack's parents pull up, his Dad is extremely mad at Jack and is going to threaten him. Then suddenly, Tyler's Mom wakes him up from his dream, saying "Is this your new address?" Tyler wakes up, still out of it and is unbelievably happy to see his Mom. Then, he tells her the whole story of what happened, but she says Chuckie had informed her of most of it. Then, Mr. and Mark Blumberg pull up, Mark turns to Tyler and asks him if he is happy, Tyler said no. Mr. Blumberg said that he was very, very sorry for the comments that he made. Then, Tyler's Mom says that he will have his 13th birthday party with her and possibly Chris. In the end, Tyler says that thirteen might be a good year for lemons.