Zachary Barlow Timeline and Summary

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• Zach loves playing with his best friends Alice and Poppy, but he's starting to feel self-conscious about it.
• Zach's dad throws away his toys in an effort to make his son play basketball. They have a huge fight, and Zach seriously considers running away.
• Instead of telling Alice and Poppy what happened, Zach lies and tells them he doesn't want to play anymore. They don't take this news well.
• Zach sneaks out with Alice and Poppy and learns that a doll from their game, the Queen, is haunted by the spirit of a dead girl. Or so Poppy says.
• Zach packs some supplies and sets off to catch the bus with his friends, leaving town around 3:00AM. They plan to return by evening so their families will be none the wiser.
• After being harassed by Tinshoe Jones on the bus, the gang abandons it after the first stop. They sleep in the park.
• Over donuts the next morning, they regroup and strategize, deciding to walk to East Liverpool, where the cemetery is.
• Their journey is interrupted by a river, so Zach decides they should steal a boat. Eventually it capsizes, but luckily they've reached the shore.
• Uh-oh, the gang missed their bus home. Again they regroup and strategize in a diner over chili and fries.
• They break into a library to look for a map to the cemetery, but they accidentally fall asleep there and awake to a librarian, Miss Katherine, who is not amused.
• Locked in the break room by Miss Katherine, the gang finds a way to escape.
• They steal a few bikes and book it to the graveyard, where they at last find Eleanor's grave. They finish burying her just as Zach's parents drive up.