Summary

In Chapter 11 Georgie and Jeanie are in the library doing research on Abraham Lincoln for their project. Georgie is trying to work, but Jeanie is goofing off. Her actions annoy Georgie. He is even more annoyed when the librarian comes by to see whether everything is okay and Jeanie acts nice and as if she is working. They go to look for their books and Georgie looks on a shelf with a book about drawfs. He sees that someone has checked it out and later discovers that it was Jeanie. He wonders why she would want to learn about him because he thinks that she hates him.

At the beginning of Chapter 12, the narrator wants readers to pick up a pencil and notice that they probably pick it up as if they are going to write. The narrator then draws readers’ attention to...