They resell the candies to old men at a local pool hall.
CeeCee, where they purchase retro candies. They take their stolen 90 cents to the neighborhood candy lady, Ms. Today, though, they have a different mission. The Low Cuts are known for stealing loose change to supplement their free school lunches. The Low Cuts grew out of a support group that the school counselor started for them-the kids each have a parent who has cancer. In “The Low Cuts Strike Again,” the after-school bell rings and the Low Cuts, a group comprising Bit, Trista, Francy, and John John, meet outside. Neither of them see the school bus fall from the sky. She’d rather be a water bear, a microscopic creature that can withstand extreme heat and cold. On the walk home, Jasmine teases TJ for the boogers in his nose while TJ insists that people are just big boogers, since God made people out of dust and, according to their science teacher, people are mostly water. In the present, though, things seem back to normal, except for the fact that TJ carries Jasmine’s heavy backpack full of textbooks and homework she missed while she was out. They’ve been best friends and have been walking home together for the last six years, but Jasmine has been in the hospital for the last month due to a sickle cell anemia flare-up.
In “Water Booger Bears,” TJ and Jasmine are getting ready to walk home after school.
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