By: David D

Chapters 1-3  When Tess first sees the writing on the church wall with the four fours she wonders what it means.  Richard is mad at her for telling on him for cheating on a test

Continued  Richard took out pages of her journal where her assignment was.  Her history teacher talks about the history of graffiti.  The four fours on the wall add up to be 15, 14, 1,18,19

Chapters 4-7  Richard stole Tess's book bag  Lucia stole candy from a store  Tess writes on the wall with a pen  Tess asked her grandpa what onars means

Continued  They think it stands for ARSON  Tess goes to an art shop and buys paint sticks to write on the wall  Tess writes W-H-E-R-E and Miranda draws a hose to the sunflower.

Chapters 8-10  When Tess and Miranda first wrote on the wall Miranda drew a hose to the flower and someone else drew a knife cutting it.  When Tess’s question is answered with 4^4- 4!-4!= 208 which means arson

continued  Tess interviews Mr. Z about the fire in the room.  Tess blames Lucia or Mr. for the fire that was started in Mr. room.  Tess gets a juice box put in her hood by Eddie, one of Richards friends.

Chapters  Tess almost got into a fight because a lie that was made up.  When Tess looked at the wall there were 5 more problems.  Tess writes on the wall and circles the problem that spells who and an arrow to the word arson

continued  Tess asked Lucia why she steals and she said because she’s good at it.  When Tess checks the wall there were 4 more sets of numbers.

Chapters  Ms. Belford finds Tess's paint sticks  Tess was told to go the councilors office  Tess’s punishment is Four days of suspension And has to clean up Graffiti off the school Walls.

continued  Tess’s parents ground her from talking to friends and writing a not to minister of the church  Tess thinks Marcus started the fire in Mr. Z room because Mr. Z made fun of Marcus.

Chapters  Tess’s found out that Lucia wrote the four 4s on the wall.  Tess’s opinion piece was put into the school paper.  While cleaning the graffiti of the stalls Tess found a mermaid painted on the door.  Tess asked Lucia how she knew Marcus started the fire. Lucia said that she walked in the room when he did it.

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