Clementine

Clementine tries to get her parents to feel sorry for her and give her a treat like they did for her brother when he got shots. This plan doesn’t work. Since Margaret and Clementine are no longer friends, Clementine is bored while she waits to go pick up the big picture of Polka Dottie.

Clementine needs to find a place to put the picture to scare the pigeons. She rides the elevator up, stopping on the seventh floor and playing with the painters’ stilts. She gets back on the elevator and runs into Margaret and Amanda-Lee on the way to the mall; this makes Clementine feel lonely.

Finally, Clementine picks up the picture of Polka Dottie. Looking at it makes her “heart hurt so much [she] couldn’t breathe for a minute” (100). Back at the building, Clementine realizes she can put the picture in Mrs. Jacobi’s apartment since it’s at the top of the building. In Mrs. Jacobi’s apartment, Clementine makes an incredible discovery: Mrs. Jacobi has been feeding the pigeons out of the front windows! Clementine decides that she will get Mrs. Jacobi whatever she needs from the store—a chore she often does—if Mrs.