How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Pretty soon you've completely lost your name. You and nineteen other saps are known simply as Basket Boy. […]
It wasn't like girls were bidding on the basket. When you got right down to it, this was a meat market. (13.7-8)
Bryce has been chosen as a "Basket Boy" at Mayfield Junior High, and he's not a happy camper. We know he's fallen for some of the girl stereotypes occasionally—but now he's being stuck into a stereotype too: the cute boy stereotype. Now Bryce is expected to live up to some social expectations about what it means to be a Basket Boy—so he's got to be cute, and he's got to have girls bid on him like he's an object.