Dialogue
Nick: Two points!
Jeffrey: Change songs, Larry.
Larry: I don't know any other songs.
Jeffrey: Hey, Evan? How many rocks you have at home?
Evan: Lots. You know I collect them.
Nick: What else is he gonna collect? [The others shrug in agreement. After all, they live in Elma]
Jeffrey: Larry!
Larry: Just one! To see if they're fresh!
Nick: No more, Larry.
Larry: Here they come!
Kate: I can't believe tomorrow we start another school year with these geeks. [She has a shag of unkempt hair and wears an outfit of rough-and-topple clothes. In her hand is a pocketknife, her constant companion, that she is forever twirling absentmindedly like a baton]
Sophia: We're never gone to school with anyone but these geeks.
Polly: At least tomorrow, we get a new teacher. [She tags behind her two friends, pulling her pet goat, Ernie, by a rope]
Kate: Perhaps. Perhaps not. Nobody's shown up yet.
Sophia: I hope this year she won't drink.
Polly: I hope she doesn't smell.
Sophia: Mrs. Vancil smelled because of t