Summary

“Danvers vs. Marblehead” (116) opens with Abby Putnam being interviewed by Nicky Higgins, a school reporter, after the Danvers team won a game against the Beverly Panthers 8-0. Nicky’s chin, referred to as “the Chin” (117), had a reputation at the school because she had a pronounced underbite that would require medical intervention to fix once her jaw stopped growing. Nicky had pitched an idea for a weekly series on the field hockey team’s exceptional turnaround, hoping to win a Flamie, the school’s top reporting prize.

The team believed that their win had been so major because they had increased their number of devious actions. They only found out later, at a car wash on Friday, that Coach Mullins had been escorted out of the building due to a note in the main office that said he had been “banging a...