Chapter 1 In chapter one the main character Maia Wojciechowska wakes up from a dream to the sound of a plane. She thinks it is her father’s, but when she runs outside with her new puppy to see, Maia finds out that it is not her father’s plane. The plane flies over parallel with her running dog. The dog jumped up for a brief moment, then there was a sound and her puppy never …showed first 75 words of 3709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3709 total…Zbyszek and he asked where she was going, and didn’t she want to see New York. But Maia said no and she wanted to be the only person on the ship that didn’t. Zbyszek told her that Mrs. Wolska was half-right – Maia was crazy. Maia said, “No, I’m going to be a genius.” And she wanted to be alone to try to figure out how she could pull it off. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**