10.28.13 Jeremy, a decidedly non-cool high school junior who narrates this innovative novel, is obsessed with buying a coveted "squip" off the black market. To raise the cash, he must first steal, then sell off his favorite aunt's prized Beanie Baby collection. For the uninitiated, a squip is a futuristic, pill-size super-computer that, when swallowed, implants itself into its owner's brain and becomes a sort of uber-life-coach. Jeremy's squip goes to work immediately on his most glaring deficits, becoming a high-tech social sk**s coach and tutor rolled into one. The squip's voice instructs Jeremy in wonderfully pedantic detail, and it is precisely this real time "voice" that teens with NLD will initially connect to so well. The squip tells Jeremy exactly how a teenage boy "should" talk, walk, swear, dress to impress girls, party like there's no tomorrow, and paradoxically, how to charm his teachers, be seen as an ideal student, ace his a**ignments and fly through his SATs while he's at. 10.29.13 A poor and pa**ionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.wo North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service. 10.30.13 They can't hide for long, though; Hagrid shows up on Harry's birthday to deliver the letter, and the news that Harry's a wizard and has been admitted to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The next day he takes Harry to shop for school supplies at Diagon Alley, where Harry learns more about the wizarding world. He meets Malfoy (a bully) and Hogwarts' new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Quirrell. Harry also buys his first wand. Sweeeet. Hagrid also picks up a mysterious package at Gringotts, the goblin bank. Later that summer, Harry travels to Hogwarts. He has to take a train from platform nine and three-quarters, a magical platform! A family called the Weasleys helps him find his way, and he begins to make friends with one of their sons, Ron. He meets other first-year students like Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom. 10.31.13 Soon after,Paul finishes the last chapter of Misery's Return and asks Annie for a cigarette to celebrate the completion of the man*script.When she returns,he tells her that Misery's Return is the best thing he's ever written but that Annie will never get to read it.He then drops the lit match onto the man*script on the board across the arms of his wheelchair,which he has doused with a squirreled-away bottle of lighter fluid. Annie runs to the pile and tries to put it out.Paul flings his typewriter and hits her in the back. She falls,cracking her head on the mantelpiece.This gives Paul the upper hand and he takes several handfuls of burning pages and shoves them down her throat, one by one,until she lies still.