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Flipped · Garden Heights
Part 8
for Flipped · Part 8 · Chapter 14
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What Happens in Part 8
Chapter 14 belongs to Juli Baker and covers the same auction from her side. Determined to prove she is finished with Bryce, she votes for the quiet, decent boys and leaves him off her list; his name is read anyway, and hearing that Shelly Stalls plans to bid stings more than she expected. She leaves her money at home on purpose, but Mrs. Stueby catches her before school and pays her eighteen dollars for months of eggs. When the bidding on Jon Trulock produces only silence, Juli spends the whole eighteen dollars on him. At lunch she sits with Jon while Shelly and Miranda Humes fight at Bryce’s table; Bryce Loski appears beside her, takes her hand and tries to kiss her, and she gets away and goes home. She tells Trina Baker everything, and her mother answers that the Loski marriage is in trouble and that people do change. Days later Bryce is planting a sycamore in the Bakers’ yard with Robert Baker’s permission, and Juli decides it may be time to hear him out.
What We Will Learn
Section
What you will practice
Vocabulary
Words from a fundraiser: auction, bid, pledge, proceeds, beneficiary…
Literary Elements
Resolution, symbol, and an ending that stops one moment before the answer
Cross-Curricular
Charity auctions — how the money is raised and where it actually goes
Chapter Summary
Ch.
What happens
14
The Basket Boys — Juli narrates the auction from her side of the room. Trying to prove she is finished with Bryce, she votes for the quiet, decent boys and deliberately leaves him off her list; his name is read out anyway, and hearing that Shelly Stalls means to bid on him hurts more than she expected. She leaves her money at home on purpose, but Mrs. Stueby catches her before school and settles up eighteen dollars for months of eggs, so Juli arrives with cash in her pocket after all. When the bidding on Jon Trulock produces nothing but silence, she cannot stand it and spends the whole eighteen dollars on him. At lunch she sits with Jon while Shelly and Miranda fight at Bryce’s table; Bryce appears beside her, takes her hand and tries to kiss her, and she gets away and goes home. She tells her mother everything, and her mother tells her that the Loski marriage is in trouble and that people can change. Days later Bryce is in the Bakers’ front yard with her father’s permission, planting a sycamore sapling, and Juli decides it may be time to hear him out.
Part 1
Vocabulary
Study 10 key words from Chapter 14, then answer each question.
💰Knowledge Bank · The Words on a Fundraiser’s Flyer
Economics & Language · Fundraising TermsA fundraising flyer is written in a small technical language, and reading it properly is a life skill. To bid is to name a price at a sale where the highest offer wins, so a bid is a commitment the moment the hammer falls. A pledge is softer: a promise to pay later, which is why careful organizers track how many pledges are actually collected. The word proceeds is the one people misread most often. It does not mean everything the event took in; it means what is left once the room, the printing and the food have been paid for, and the gap between those two numbers can be large. Finally, the beneficiary is whoever receives the money at the end — a team, a scholarship, a library. Juli walks into her auction carrying eighteen dollars of egg money, and by the end of the hour every one of those words has cost her something real.
auctionn.Ch.14
A public sale where an item goes to whoever offers the most
“The auction raised more for the school than the bake sale ever had.”
bidv.Ch.14
To offer an amount of money for something at a sale
“She had not planned to bid on anybody that morning.”
pledgen.Ch.14
A promise to give a set amount of money
“A pledge is only worth what the person eventually pays.”
proceedsn.Ch.14
The money an event brings in once its costs are paid
“Every dollar of the proceeds went back to school programs.”
beneficiaryn.Ch.14
The person or group that receives the money raised
“Ask who the beneficiary is before you hand over anything.”
donatev.Ch.14
To give money or goods to a cause without charge
“Local shops agreed to donate the items for the sale.”
tallyv.Ch.14
To add amounts together to reach a total
“Two parents stayed late to tally the bids by hand.”
saplingn.Ch.14
A young tree, still slender enough to plant by hand
“He carried the sapling across the street and started digging.”
reconcilev.Ch.14
To become friendly again after a serious falling-out
“Nothing in the last page promises that the two will reconcile.”
bewilderedadj.Ch.14
Completely puzzled about what is happening
“She stood at the window too bewildered to go outside.”
ⓘ The vocabulary words in this list are selected to help you understand and complete this workbook. Some may not appear verbatim in the original novel.
1A public sale where an item goes to the highest offer is an ___.Ch.14
2The money an event brings in once its costs are paid is its ___.Ch.14
3A ‘beneficiary’ is the person or group that receives what a fundraiser raises.Ch.14
4At an auction, to offer an amount of money for an item is to ___.Ch.14
5Fill in each blank with the correct word.Ch.14
Word choices:saplingtallybewilderedpledge- some words will not be used
He carried a across the street and started digging.
She stood at the window too to go outside.
6To ‘tally’ the bids means to throw them out and start the sale again.Ch.14
7A promise to give a set amount of money is a ___.Ch.14
8To ‘reconcile’ with someone is to become friendly again after a falling-out.Ch.14
9Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Ch.14
Word choices:auctiondonateproceedsreconcile- some words will not be used
Local shops agreed to the items for the sale.
Every dollar of the went back to school programs.
10A young tree slender enough to plant by hand is a ___.Ch.14
Part 2
Comprehension
Show you understood what happens in Chapter 14.
📋Knowledge Bank · Where the Auction Money Goes
Economics · How a Charity Auction RunsA charity auction looks like a party and works like a small business. Organizers pick a goal, choose a format, and estimate costs before a single dollar arrives. Almost everything sold is donated, so the goods cost the organizers nothing and the crowd, not a printed price tag, decides what each item is worth — which is exactly why auctions can outperform a fixed-price ticket. Against that sits the overhead: the room, the permits, the printing, the food, and anything the organizers had to buy. Subtract overhead from the total taken in and you have the figure that actually reaches the cause. Volunteers are the quiet reason school fundraisers work at all, since every job a volunteer does is a job nobody has to pay for. When you judge a fundraiser, ignore the headline number and ask for the ratio: an event that raises a great deal and keeps very little has mostly thrown itself a party.
1Why does Juli leave Bryce off her list when she votes for basket boys?Ch.14
2Where does the eighteen dollars in Juli’s pocket come from?Ch.14
3Why does Juli end up bidding on Jon Trulock?Ch.14
4What does Juli do when Bryce reaches for her at lunch?Ch.14
5Write the numbers 1–5 in the boxes to show the correct order of events in Chapter 14. Number 1 = what happens first.Ch.14
Days after the lunch, Bryce plants a sycamore in the Bakers’ yard.
Juli votes for quiet, decent boys and leaves Bryce off her list.
Nobody bids on Jon Trulock, so Juli spends the whole eighteen dollars.
Mrs. Stueby stops her before school and pays eighteen dollars for eggs.
She hears that Shelly Stalls intends to bid on Bryce.
6Juli spends her entire eighteen dollars on Jon Trulock’s basket.Ch.14
7What does Juli’s mother tell her that changes how she sees the Loskis?Ch.14
8Bryce plants the sycamore in Juli’s yard without asking anyone in her family.Ch.14
9How does Chapter 14 end?Ch.14
10Chapter 14 retells the auction and the lunch from Juli’s side of the room.Ch.14
Part 3
Literary Elements
Understanding HOW and WHY Wendelin Van Draanen tells the story across Chapter 14.
🌱Knowledge Bank · An Ending That Plants Instead of Explaining
Literary Craft · Resolution and SymbolVan Draanen finishes this novel with a shovel rather than a speech, and the choice is worth studying. A symbol is an object that carries an idea too large for the object itself, and the sycamore has been loaded since the day it came down: it stood for height, for seeing further, and for the one thing Juli had that nobody else valued. Putting a young one back in her own front yard is therefore a sentence Bryce could never have said out loud. Notice also where the book stops. Juli is at the window, thinking about going out, and the chapter ends there — an ending left deliberately open, refusing to report the conversation it has spent fourteen chapters earning. That restraint is what keeps the last page from turning sentimental, and it hands the final judgement to the reader.
Resolution
The final chapter releases the pressure the story has built, though it settles the feeling rather than answering every question.
Symbol
A sycamore sapling planted in a front yard stands for everything Bryce has no words for — and it repairs the loss the book opened with.
Open ending
The novel stops in the moment before the conversation, leaving the outcome for the reader to decide rather than reporting it.
1The sycamore Bryce plants works in the story mainly as ___.Ch.14
2Fill in each blank with the correct literary term.Ch.14
Word choices:symbolresolutionnarratorrhyme- some words will not be used
An object that stands for a larger idea is a .
The part of a story that settles its pressure is the .
3Stopping before Juli and Bryce actually talk is an example of ___.Ch.14
4Chapter 14 covers events that Chapter 13 never mentioned at all.Ch.14
5Van Draanen ends the novel by explaining exactly what happens to Bryce and Juli.Ch.14
6Choosing a sycamore rather than any other tree matters because ___.Ch.14
7Fill in the blank with the correct literary term.Ch.14
Word choices:climaxprefacerhymesetting- some words will not be used
The moment of highest tension in a story is its .
8The last two chapters keep the book’s two-narrator pattern right to the final page.Ch.14
9Giving the final chapter to Juli rather than Bryce mainly ___.Ch.14
10The novel closes on an image rather than a conversation because ___.Ch.14
Part 4
Think Deeper
Four deeper challenges — no single-word recall. Read, weigh the evidence, and reason it out.
💡Knowledge Bank · When a Fundraiser Costs Somebody
Ethics · Dignity in CharityA good cause does not make every method fair, and the basket-boy auction is a useful case. The money goes somewhere worthwhile, the crowd enjoys itself, and yet the design quietly ranks a whole grade by price in one lunch period. Somebody sells for a record figure. Somebody stands on a stage in total silence. Ask the questions a careful organizer would: does the event depend on comparison between people, is anyone exposed who did not truly choose to be, and could the same money be raised without putting a person on the block. None of that makes fundraising suspect. It means an event should be judged by two measures rather than one, a double standard in the useful sense — what it raised, and what it cost the people inside it. Juli spends every dollar she has to spare one boy that silence, which is the chapter’s plainest lesson in dignity.
Hold on to the last picture in this book. A boy is on his knees in somebody else’s front yard with a shovel and a young sycamore, working steadily, having asked the girl’s father for permission and nobody else. Inside the house a girl is at the window watching him and deciding what to do, and everything that would normally be said out loud at the end of a story — the apology, the explanation, the promise — is not said at all. The tree that started this whole argument was cut down in front of her. Now a smaller one is going into the ground on her side of the street. The novel ends before she reaches the door, which leaves the last decision exactly where it belongs.
Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.
1Claim: “Chapter 14 measures Bryce’s change by what it costs him rather than by what he says.” — choose the two details that best prove it.Claim & Evidence
2The money side of the auction, or Juli’s side of the auction? Tap each detail to send it left or right.Sort into two
◄ The money side of the auctionJuli’s side of the auction ►
3Match each cause to its result. For each cause, pick its result.Cause & Effect
Mrs. Stueby settles up for months of eggs→
The bidding on Jon Trulock stops before it starts→
Bryce reaches for Juli in front of the cafeteria→
Robert Baker gives Bryce permission to dig→
4Fill both blanks to complete the reasoning.Build the Argument
Van Draanen ends the book with a planted tree instead of an apology because , which shows that .
Part 5
Standardized Test
Reading passage · How a Fundraiser Works · Words in Context & Central Ideas · SAT & TOEFL-style practice
🎯 What this section practices
You already have these skills from the sections above — here they appear in the exact question types the SAT and TOEFL use. Read the passage (the highlighted words are tested below), then answer. Tap an answer to select it, then tap it again to confirm — you can change your choice until you confirm.
SATCentral Ideas — the main point of the passage as a whole
TOEFLFactual Information — a fact stated directly in the passage
SATWords in Context — what a word means the way this passage uses it
TOEFLVocabulary — the meaning of a tested word as this passage uses it
TOEFLInsert Text — where a given sentence best fits among four marked spots
SATInference — a conclusion the passage supports without ever stating it outright
How a School Fundraiser Works
A school fundraiser looks like a party and works like a small business. Somebody sets a goal, picks an event, and estimates what the event will cost before a single dollar comes in. The money that arrives at the door is the gross, and what survives after the bills are paid is the proceeds. Volunteers matter enormously here, because every job a volunteer does is a job nobody has to be paid to do.
An auction is popular because it lets a crowd set the price. The items are donated, so what is sold costs the organizers almost nothing, and open bidding can push a price well past what a fixed ticket would dare to charge. Organizers still spend money on the room, the printing, the food and the permits, and those costs together are the overhead. A well-run event keeps overhead low enough that most of what is raised is still there at the end.
The last question is where the money actually goes. Every fundraiser should name its beneficiary — the person, team or program that receives what is raised — and honest organizers say so before anyone donates. Schools usually route the money through a booster club or a parent group, which then has to report what it collected and what it spent. Donors are entitled to ask both questions. A group that answers them plainly is usually worth giving to a second time.
Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.
1What is the main idea of the passage?SAT · Central Ideas
2According to the passage, why is an auction popular?TOEFL · Factual Information
3In the passage, proceeds most nearly means ___.SAT · Words in Context
4In the passage, overhead refers to ___.TOEFL · Vocabulary
5Insert Text (TOEFL). Look at the four squares [1]–[4] in the excerpt below. They show where this sentence could be added: “A crowd of small givers rewards the raffle; a few determined bidders reward the auction.”
A raffle sells many cheap chances at a single prize. [1] An auction sells one item to whoever will pay the most. [2] Which format suits an event depends on the crowd it can draw. [3] Organizers who guess wrong raise less than the donated goods were worth. [4]
Where would the sentence fit best?TOEFL · Insert Text
6In the passage, a beneficiary is ___.SAT · Words in Context
7The passage says volunteers matter because ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
8The passage suggests an event that raises a lot but keeps little has ___.SAT · Inference
9The passage implies that donors should ask ___.SAT · Inference
10According to the passage, school fundraising money usually passes through ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
Part 6 · Optional
Creative Writing
A bonus challenge to practice your English. Take your time and have fun with it.
About This Section
This writing task is optional and is not part of your auto-graded score. The feedback below checks only the basics — length, spelling, and grammar — not whether your ideas are right or wrong. It is meant for classroom discussion and creative practice, so feel free to use your imagination!
Writing Task — Part 8 “What I Would Raise Money For”
The Booster Club raises money by putting twenty boys and their lunches up for bidding. Design a fundraiser of your own. Name the cause the money would go to, describe the event in enough detail that somebody could actually run it, and estimate what it would cost to put on. 6–10 sentences. End by explaining one rule you would set so that nobody at your event is embarrassed the way Jenny is at this one.
You can start with: “The money would go to one thing only, and here is how we would raise it…”
0 / 40 words minimum
🗣 Teach It · Just for Fun (optional)
No right or wrong — tell someone nearby what happened in this part. Can’t find anyone? Tell yourself out loud. The moment you teach it, you truly understand it.
Part 8 Complete — You Finished the Book! 🎉
You finished Chapter 14 — the final part of Flipped.
Independent study guide by Garden Heights. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Wendelin Van Draanen. Contains original analysis only; no text from the novel is reproduced. Reference text: This workbook follows Wendelin Van Draanen’s classic text (the standard Puffin edition sold worldwide). Revised 2023 UK editions change some wording and may not match the vocabulary studied here.
