Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE: Eaganville

CHAPTER TWO: The Losers

CHAPTER THREE: Tragic Home Life

CHAPTER FOUR: God Speaks in Horrible Ways

CHAPTER FIVE: ISS or Something Like It

CHAPTER SIX: Basketball-Slam Poetry in Motion

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Snow-Posal

CHAPTER EIGHT: My Dad

CHAPTER NINE: The Snow Ball

CHAPTER TEN: The Plan

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Nightmare at Applebee’s

CHAPTER TWELVE: Dawn of the Speech Team

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Cookie Time

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Debates

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Anesh

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Work-Life-Love-Conspiracy Balance

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Brooklyn Park Invitational

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Winning

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Big Woman on Campus

CHAPTER TWENTY: Joining the Other Team

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Party Planning

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Party-Apocalypse

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Spinning the Bottle

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Recalibration

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Back in the Cookie Mines

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Frodo Eats a Sweet-Ass Casserole

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The End of Andrew Chen

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Fallout

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Visitation

CHAPTER THIRTY: My Story

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Dark Side

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Servant of the Empire

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Training with the Enemy

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Changes

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Thomas Brings the Heat

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: I’m Sorry I Was a Big Stupid Idiot

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Endgame

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Advancing

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Order 66

CHAPTER FORTY: Breaking Hanson Bridges

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Everything Goes Wrong

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: One Last Speech

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: The Aftermath

EPILOGUE

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