Chapter 1-2 Main Idea: When you talk to your family they can help you through stuff. "Lily," Mother said, beckoning the little girl, "go on now and get into your night clothes. Father and I are going to stay here and talk to Jonas for a while."'
Chapters 6-8 Main idea: growing up comes with new and exciting things "Now Jonas's group had taken a new place in the Auditorium,trading with the new elevens, so that they sat in the very front, immediately before the stage"