![]() Along the way, he learns there is a six million dollar bounty on his head. After Billy has stayed in the safe house long enough that he believes people are no longer actively looking for him, he sets off on a mission to find Nick. ![]() He believes he is justified in his fear Nick was planning to have him killed when Nick refuses to pay Billy even though he did the job. On the day that Billy kills Allen, he escapes using his own plan to a safe house nearby. Billy has the sense that the people Nick claims will drive him to safety after Allen is dead are going to kill Billy. Not only does Nick not seem to have all of the information about the shooting, but he also comes up with an escape plan for Billy, a part of the shooting Billy is generally left to take care of on his own. Billy is uncomfortable with this job because Nick Majarian, a man who has hired him previously, is acting in a strange manner. ![]() His final job as a for-hire assassin balloons into multiple killings as he hunts down the man who ordered the killing of Joel Allen, an inmate who knew a secret that would destroy the man’s world.īilly cannot help but take on one final job as an assassin for hire when he learns he will be paid two million dollars to kill Allen, a man he was told shot a 15-year-old boy walking home from school. ![]() In the last job novel Billy Summers by Stephen King, Billy Summers uses his abilities as a sharpshooter to eliminate bad people. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: King, Stephen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But that disjointed nature - that confusion - made the ending all the sweeter.įor young readers, Miranda is the type of heroine we would wish our daughters to emulate. To be honest, I wasn’t always sure of what was going on. Miranda is a huge fan of Madeleine L’Engle, devoting her days to reading A Wrinkle In Time (which she refers to only as “her book”), and the reader starts to think all this time-travel business has gone to her head. Loosely centered on the friendship between Miranda and best friend Sal, When You Reach Me has a series of odd letters at its heart. The time travel aspect was one of the most startling and delightful bits of this unique, fast-paced story. As a 27-year-old who hasn’t dealt with bullies or mangled friendships in quite some time, I still found myself intrigued by Miranda’s story and easily relating to the complicated web of school dynamics. Its middle-school protagonist Miranda seems to settle it in a middle-grade or young adult fiction camp, but the themes - family loyalty friendship time travel - speak to a diverse audience. Set in the 1970s, When You Reach Me defies categorization. And you paid good money for me, you idiot.” Think you’ll get to me any time soon? You’ve read, like, thirty review books this year. Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me was one of those novels gathering dust on my shelves since 2009, peeking its colorful head out every so often to squawk, “Hey, I’m still here, you know. ![]() ![]() ![]() They live in the canopies of trees in the jungle on the Caribbean coast, where the climate is hot and humid.Īmerican Judy Avey runs a sanctuary in the balmy jungle to care for sloths injured after coming into contact with humans or other animals. ![]() The sloth is a national symbol in laid back Costa Rica, and a major tourist attraction for the Central American country.īoth the two-toed (Choloepus Hoffmanni) and three-toed (Bradypus variegatus) sloth species have seen their populations decline, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species. or inhibit other competitors" such as fungi, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Microbiology. ![]() They found the possible existence of antibiotic-producing bacteria that "makes it possible to control the proliferation of potentially pathogenic bacteria. "Obviously when there is co-existence of many types of organisms, there must also be systems that control them," he said.Ĭhavarria and a team took fur samples from Costa Rican two- and three-toed sloths to examine what that control system could be. ![]() |