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Chapters 1 and 2

• Tom gets in trouble for stealing jam, gets in a fight with a new boy, and plays hooky from school in order to swim.
• Tom is sentenced to whitewash the fence on Saturday and tricks his friends into doing the work for him.

Chapter 3

• Tom and his best friend, Joe Harper, play war where they are rival generals.
• Tom sees the new girl in town and falls for her, completely forgetting his old love, Amy Lawrence.

• Tom gets punished for a crime his half-brother, Sid, commits and spends time sulking.

Chapters 4 and 5

• Tom barters his ill-gotten whitewashing treasures for Sunday School tickets, which are supposed to be earned by learning Bible verses.
• Judge Thatcher is an important guest at Sunday School and father of Tom's crush, and Tom turns in his tickets for a Bible, though he doesn't even know any apostle's names.

• At church, Tom...

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