Primrose Squarp comes to live with her Uncle Jack in Coal Harbor after losing her parents. She has several mishaps that result in injuries, including getting run over and losing part of her finger. Miss Honeycut, who is mean, decides it is no longer safe for Primrose to live with Uncle Jack and sends her away to a foster home. Later, there is a fire at one of Uncle Jack's properties and he heroically rescues Miss Honeycut, but the door falls on him and he needs to go to the hospital.

1. By: Polly Horvath

2. main characters and setting
 Primrose Squarp
clever and hopeful THEY LIVE IN COAL HARBOR
 Uncle jack
brave and nice
 Miss Perfidy
old and forgetful
 Miss Bowzer
nice, helpful and a good cook
 Miss Honeycut
Greedy ,mean, and only speaks in long anecdotes

3. Primrose used to live with her parents but one day her
dad got lost at sea so Primrose’s mom went out to find
him but they never came back.

4. Early in the book
Uncle Jack is trying to sell a house and Primrose is
outside and she was in the road and a car came
and ran over her pinkie toe and knocked her
unconscious. Then Uncle Jack took her to the
hospital.

5. Later in the book
Primrose lost a part of her finger while fishing with a
net. The net got tangled on her finger and she fell in
the water. Miss Honeycut thought it was not safe for
her to be living with Uncle Jack anymore so she sent
Primrose to a foster home far away from coal harbor.
There was a fire in one of Uncle Jack’s townhouses and
Miss Honeycut was trapped inside so Uncle Jack ran
inside to save her and when he is coming out with
Miss Honeycut in his, arms the door falls on his back
and he goes to the hospital.

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