Chapters 21 and 22 Summary

Danny, Will, Ty, Tarik, Rasheed, and Zach are eating dinner when Tess arrives in tears. She tells the boys that while she was in the restroom, someone smashed her prized camera, which she'd left in its bag outside the restroom door. The boys immediately assume that it was Lamar, but they realize that confronting him would be a mistake because they have no proof. Danny is upset because he's never seen Tess cry before and when he walks her to the dock to meet her uncle, he explains that Lamar is simply a bully. Walking back to Gampel, Danny sees Lamar standing between him and the door. Again Lamar taunts him, but Danny remembers his mother's advice — do not engage — and ignores him.

The next day the boys learn that Lamar has gotten away with breaking Tess's camera because...