Apples
- Auggie wants to invite everyone in his homeroom class plus Summer over for his birthday.
- When his mom asks if he wants to include the "what's the deal" kid (a.k.a. Julian), Auggie says she can invite him, and tells her that she should forget about that already.
- A bunch of kids RSVP that they can't come for different reasons. Auggie is a little disappointed.
- Julian's mother hasn't respond at all though, prompting Auggie's mom to comment, "I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" (1.Apples.18).
- About six kids from his class end up coming to the party, so it is smaller than Auggie imagined it would be, but his old friend Christopher comes up from Connecticut too, and his aunt and uncle from Boston, so all in all Auggie feels celebrated.