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Character Descriptions
JESSE AARONS – Age 10, Virginia farm boy who draws and runs
LESLIE BURKE – Age 10, newly arrived from Arlington, a lover of reading and fantasy
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MAY BELLE AARONS – Jesse's six-year-old sister
MRS. AARONS – A farm wife and mother with little education and some religion
MR. AARONS – Part-time farmer and day laborer
BRENDA AARONS – The Aarons’ teenager, interested in clothes, boys and television
JANICE AVERY – 13 year-old school bully, large, unlovely and slow
MISS EDMUNDS – Young, pretty, generous and caring, she teaches fifth grade and music at Lark Creek Elementary
GARY FULCHER – Supposedly the fastest runner in the fifth grade
BILLY JEAN – 5th grader
GIRL 2 – 5th grader
BOY 1 – 5th grader
BOY 2 – 5th grader
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