Chapter+14

Pages 286 - 294

Lily had just started feeling better about all the things August told her. She was wearing the whale pin her mom left behind. August described to Lily how beautiful bee's were in the morning and she took her out to see them. They talked about how one of the queen's died so someone was bringing one over later that day. August told Lily that when she told her the story of Beatrix, she was saying Mary would stand in for Deborah, her mom, instead of standing in for her. Later that day, T. Ray came and told her they were leaving, when Lily pulled away, implying no, T. Ray slapped her firmly across the face.

By:Brian Desch

Pages 295-302 As T.Ray was trying to get Lily to go with him, Lily apologized for leaving the way she did. T.Ray stopped and looked down, as if thinking about what she had said. Then, as T.Ray tried again to take Lily home, Lily told him that she was staying and not leaving. Then, August and some of the other Daughters came and persuaded T.Ray to let Lily stay. He then said, "Good Riddance", as he left and went to his truck. As he was leaving, Lily came to stop him to ask whether she had really killed her mother. He replied yes and told her the truth about it without getting angry and sounding very sad. Weeks pass by and school starts. Lily meets Clayton's daughter, Becca, and she and Zach both hang out with each other at school. The people around the school call Lily and Becca "Nigger Lovers" and harass them, but they keep on going through life. The book ends with Lily finally at peace and having a good life. She says she has more mother than anyone and they are the moons shining over her. By Andy

=Period 6/7= Pages 277 - 285

Lily was still upset about what she found out about her mother. She would stay away from everyone else, and go down to the river. August hada told her to take a break from everything as she did when May died. June had also set a date for the wedding October 10th. Neil's brother is a reverend who is going to marry them in the back yard. June had planned it all out one night at the dinner table. One day Lily was dying of thirst and she saw June and August hugging and heard them talking about what if May was here to see the wedding. The next day Lily was hungry finally after not eating. Rosaleen also got a new dress and wanted to go get her voting card. When Rosaleen and August left Lily had called Zach. Rosaleen then became a voter. Pages 286 - 293

By: Luc Minnich

Lily finally started to feel like herself. She had worn the whale pin of her mother's that August had given her. August told Lily what would happen if the Queen Bee had died all the worker bees would just be laying there, the queen bee just died August is waiting for a new one to control the worker bees. Later on, August told Lily to find a "mother" who is inside of her which is Our Lady" and August said that Our lady would always be with her through everything. She is not just a statue she is something inside of you that's special. Later on after August had told Lily that, August just left and Lily was in the house when she heard a knock on the door who came to be T.ray. T.ray told her to come home but she said no, T.ray noticed that whale pin she had on and told lily that he gave that to her mother on her 22nd birthday. After all of that he mostly threatened her to come home but then again Everyone in the house convinced him to let her stay. Lily found out that she did kill her mom but it was accidentally.

By: Stacy Kim

Tray had found her. He slapped her so hard that it knocked her off her feet. It seemed like he wanted Lily dead. He had a knife in his hand and kept on beating on her. He was acting very strange. After he kicked her, he called her Deborah. And he said that she was to never leave him again. Lily was confused and didnt know what to say. Tray had a flash back and thought that Lily was Deborah. He didnt snap out of it until she had called him daddy. At that moment, Rosaleen, August, and the sisters had come. Lily did not want to leave with him so she told him no. And all of the girls were there to support her decission. He didnt like the idea at first at all. But August convinced him into letting her stay. He had no choice but to leave. Lily still didnt know the most important question in her life, did she really kill her mother? Lily asked Tray and he said "I could tell you i did it. Thats what you want to hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways id be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didnt mean it, but it was you." Pages 294-298 By:Danielle Conway

Pages 299-302 In this pages Lily try to get the truth out of T.Ray about how her mother die, but she is not sure if T.Ray can be trust or not. Lily ask him again and T.Ray don't really give an answer he just make it more confusing for Lily. At the end Lily is in the middle of the pink house and the driveway, at the house the Boatwright's are watching and in the drive way T.Ray is driving away from Lily, she leave her there with the Boatwright's, in this moment Lily starts to remember everything she have been through and all the experiences that she have with the Boatwright. At the very end of the book Lily say this "I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me." She mean that maybe she don't have a mother with her, but she can find one, there is people how love her as much as her real mom.

By Julio Trejo