DIARY OF A STREET KID Summary

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RUNAWAY DIARY OF A STREET KID CHAPTER NOTES March 22 -ran away from home only taking her poems, stories, a book of writers’ markets, a change of clothing and ten dollars. -is running away to try to forget the past and to escape the hardships at home -Don and Crystal, who are dating, have taken her in -they are over 19 so they could be charged for harboring a runaway -Evelyn feels protected when she is with them -decides to leave Vancouver and go up to the coast to stay with a friend named Joe -cops are looking for her -Tommy took her to Joe’s -Joe is an old hippy with long hair, round shoulders and who wears a fringed shawl -his cabin has a wood stove, no heat, no hot water or refrigeration, a sprawling garden and lots f tents…show more content…
-Janet is young, outspoken and involved in a peace movement -all Evelyn owns are some LSD, the clothes on her back and her journals -she has to go back to Vancouver because they can’t help her because she is a Canadian July 17 -has been spending a lot of time with Janet and Allen who are replacing the foundations she is missing July 20 -Evelyn is going back to Vancouver -she hates people who say ‘we want to help” July 21 -Evelyn called Kim who told her that Ruth had flown out to the west coast to get her and bring her back to Boston July 25 -Ruth picked her up but she did not want to go back -ran away from Ruth and went to the police station to try to find somewhere to stay - she stayed in a detention centre where they questioned her and where she got to stay the night -Evelyn confesses to using a fake id to cross the border -she calls her dad who is very angry, but she tells him she doesn’t want to go home July 30 -Evelyn goes back to Vancouver -her family and Frank picked her up from the airport and brought her to the social services office -Evelyn must see a physiatrist and is going to stay at New

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