Chapter Six Summary

In Chapter Six, Lorene returns to St. Paul's that winter with definite goals. She gets elected to student council and she takes biology and calculus. She has a pen pal from New York named Ricky Lockhart. He is a beautiful black boy. She is friends with Annette, who is black, and Grace, a Chinese-American. Lorene's black group is now called the Third World Group. Lorene and Grace room together. Lorene is really into astronomy. She loves looking at the stars and constellations.

Ricky comes for the weekend. He is supposed to come on Saturday night, but surprises her and comes on Friday night. This presents a problem because she has arranged for permission for him to stay at the boys' dorm on Saturday night only. She has to sneak him in to her dorm. Grace sleeps somewhere else. He sleeps in...