Meanwhile, Bug’s best friend, Moira, is remaking herself for the beginning of middle school. An Oscar Wilde quote printed below his picture admonishes her to be herself. Uncle Roderick’s high school yearbook winds up in one of Bug’s drawers, opened to the page on which his picture is displayed. But, when Bug looks, she cannot find what caught it. On the day of his memorial service, the dress Bug is wearing appears to get caught on a door frame and rips. Since his death, she has noticed ghost activity in her house that scares her, unlike the hauntings she and her uncle identified in the past. She wakes from her sleep feeling as if her world is out of balance. She determines it is her late uncle, trying to send her a message about who she is.īug knows the moment her Uncle Roderick dies. Bug, who has always believed her house is haunted, begins experiencing scary dreams and finding things in places they do not belong. Bug, who is still dealing with grief after the death of her uncle, is not ready for any major changes and is not sure that wearing makeup and dresses will make that much difference in the way others think about her. In the children’s novel Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff, Bug’s best friend Moira advises boyish Bug that she can make a fresh start for herself in middle school. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Lukoff, Kyle.
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