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Chapters 1-11

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Murphy, Julie. Dumplin’. Balzer + Bray, 2015. Hardcover.

· In Chapter 1, the best things in Willowdean’s life have started with a Dolly Parton song, including her friendship with Ellen Dryver.

· Willowdean waits for Ellen by her boyfriend’s jeep after school.

· Ellen is tall, blonde, and “at home in her own skin” (2).

· Tim, Ellen’s boyfriend is 3 inches shorter than El, but she does not care.

· When Tim arrives and kisses Ellen, Willowdean wishes that she had a “person to kiss hello” (3).

· Willowdean notices girls at the football field attending pageant boot camp.

· Clover City is an ordinary small town, but the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant puts it on the map in Texas.

· It started in the 1930s and gets bigger every year.

· Willowdean’s mother has been on the planning committee for the...

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