Chapter Summaries  Chapters 1-2 Summary  Chapter 1     As a
punishment for playing with his father's gun, Mom sends Jack to
his room, to be grounded at least until Dad returns home from a
business trip. There, Jack, who likes history and adventure
books, reads about Pizarro's conquest of the Incas in Peru. He
finds it tragic that, because the conquistadors were blinded by
their lust for gold, a whole civilization was destroyed.
Chapter 2  Jack reports to Miss Volker's house the next morning
at six as directed. On her porch he notices a heart-shaped box
of chocolates left by Edwin Spizz, the "town...  (The entire
section is 707 words.)  Chapters 3-4 Summary  Chapter 3
Chapter 4    As expected, Mom comes running out of the house
when she sees what Jack is doing. Planting herself in front of
the tractor, she demands to know what is going on. Just then,
Dad comes out of the garage where he keeps "all his secret
stuff," and tells Mom that he needs the area cleared to build a
bomb shelter for protection against