Characters: Maddie is the main character. Maddie came into the story first and then she met Q. Q and her are like a brother and sister, they're very close and they help each other when they need a little confidence or to be convinced that everything is going to be okay. She is very poor and homeless, has a great personality, is very kind and caring. She doesn't have much self-confidence at first, but always remains positive about herself when she is homeless. When she meets Q she becomes very confident because Q shows her how to get the perfect food from the restaurant dumpster and she makes a plan for her life. Then he realizes that life might not turn out to be so bad. She and Q are very kind to each other. They protect and comfort each other when they don't feel good about something. When they meet Dylan, a boy who is also homeless but without parents, so Maddie and Q are stuck with him, they think that Dylan is a very nice boy and feels bad that Maddie has to take care of him. “'I'm sorry, he said.'” (71) Dylan said this because he feels sorry that Maddie has to watch over and take care of him. POV: The author's point of view is reflected through the main character, Maddie. The book is written from Maddie's point of view, which is a first-person point of view. When she speaks she says "I" and she says "you" when she says something to Q. This would mean that Maddie is speaking, so she would be telling the story from the first person point of view. Maddie tells us her feelings which Q and Dylan don't know because she thinks so but since she is the first person we can read her thoughts. I know more about the author's thoughts on homelessness because we hear Maddie's thoughts and f...... middle of paper ......and edges Order: I think the order in which the author decided to inserting the events is very well written because it makes a lot of sense. It makes the book more interesting because it leaves me hanging and always wondering what will happen next. I think it's much more fun to read a book like that than a very predictable book. “'The third time Evan hit me, I left.'” (2) This is important to the order because none of the events would have happened if she hadn't left because she would have had her mother. The author did this to show that if something in life goes wrong, life doesn't end. It can still be fixed and good things will still happen. "'I have an idea.'" This shows that after several bad things he is realizing that he has an idea to make things better, which shows that good things will happen if you keep thinking positively.