Parker

__Story prediction__

I've read chapter 1-6 and I predict that further in the book Bradley and Jeff will become good friends and Bradley will not want to bully anyone anymore.

__Story journal__

In chapters 7-10 Bradley convinces his mother that she told him he would take him to the zoo at 11:00 which is when Bradley mom has the parent conference. In chapters 11-16 Bradley mom has the parent conference and she remembers all of the times Bradley said he got all A's. But when Bradley mom looks at the list of A's, none of them are Bradley. In chapters 17-20 Bradley and Jeff are in the library and three other girls are in there with them Coleen, Lori, and Melinda. Bradley knows all three of them and he says that he hates them all. They also know him and they knew he was a bully but they saw Jeff with Bradley and started whispering to each other. In chapters 21-24 Bradley actually gets bullied by Melinda! she gave him a black eye and he got super mad. In chapters 23-25 Bradley black eye is almost healed and he might get a gold star because instead of recess he goes to the library and reads and then he almost gets a gold star but it didn't work. Bradley then walks to lunch and people are talking about homework and Bradley starts crying so Carla kissed him on the cheek. In chapters 26-30 Bradley stays after school and tries to do his homework but for him it was just impossible. So Bradley asks Claudia to help him but she didn't help because she had her own homework. Then he asked his dad and his dad helped a lot because he just told the answers. Bradley tells his animals how to do the homework and he couldn't wait to turn in the paper but when he is about to turn it in he throws it away because he thinks he did it wrong. He talks to Carla about the report he s supposed to do and he didn't. He couldn't borrow a book so Carla gave him one and he read the book at home and told his animals to be quiet. In chapters 31-32 Bradley has almost read the book and he carries it around everywhere and Jeff's gang laughs at Bradley because he has a book and they ask Bradley to play basketball with them and Bradley said sure and then they started playing. Now that Bradley was playing they were happy because he made the teams even. Bradley said he wasn't good but they also said that they weren't good either. In chapters 33-36 Bradley was doing a little good but he shot and made the basket. When they were done playing basketball, Bradley ran to the bathroom to wash his face but then Coleen came and started screaming and ran out of the bathroom. Jeff started going to Carla's office and when he got there Colleen was there and Jeff said he saw Colleen in the boys bathroom and he told Carla and then Colleen invited Jeff over for a party and he said sure. The next day Bradley's dad taught him how to dribble the basketball and shoot. That day in school, Bradley was invited to Colleens birthday and he wanted to go. Meanwhile at the office the teachers were getting mad because Carla was not punishing any kids for when they did bad things and she just told them to stop doing it and how to stop yourself from not doing it. In chapters 33-40 Carla talks to Bradley and says that she has to leave because she wasn't doing her job correctly. In chapters 41-47 Bradley wrote a letter to Carla about Bradley feeling bad about Carla needing to leave. While Bradley and Jeff are walking to the party, Bradley is nervous because he has never been to a party in a long time. Bradley does a three legged race with Jeff and they won first prize.