The Schwa Was Here By: Neal Shusterman

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The Schwa Was HereBy Neal Shusterman
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Characters

• Calvin Schwa the Invisible Boy.
• Anthony Bonano Best friend of the Schwa.
• Lexi Crawley Lexi is the blind niece of Old Man
  Crawley.
• Old Man Crawley Big business man who lives alone
  with his 14 Afghan dogs.

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Basic Situation
Conflict

• The Schwa is slowly disappearing from sight and
  no one knows how to stop it from happening.

• The basic situation is that the Schwa is
  invisible and doesnt want to disappear like his
  mother. When he takes a dare and gets caught his
  whole life changes.

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Rising Actions

• Schwa gets noticed and agrees to do tests on
  invisibility
• Takes a dare gets caught for trespassing
• Crawley sentences them to walking his dogs for
  the next 12 weeks
• Crawley pays Antsy to date his blind niece,
  Lexi
• Schwa falls in love with Lexi
• Lexi and Antsy find out what happened to the
  Schwas mom
• Schwa buys a billboard with his face to get
  noticed
• His Billboard plan backfires on him
• Lexi and Antsy tell Schwa what happened to his mom

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Climax

• The climax of the story is when the Schwa
  disappears and Antsy looks everywhere for him but
  cant find him.

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Resolution

• The resolution to the mystery of the missing
  Schwa was when the Schwa sends Anthony a letter
  after 2 months of being missing, saying that he
  had found his mother in Key West and was living
  with her.
• So in the end of the book, the Schwa was finally
  noticed and reunited with his mother. Also,
  Crawley hired Antsys father to be a cook at his
  new restaurant and both his mom and dad run it
  together as an Italian/French food restaurant.

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Neal Shusterman
About The Author

• Raised in Brooklyn.
• Lives in Orange County with his 4 kids.
• Wrote humor column in his school paper.
• Has written T.V. series and many award winning
  novels.

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