When Avery cry in the bathroom, after Leslie talk with Avery. She knew about Avery’s family. Avery’s father always beat her. That why she always beat other students.
“ did you know her father beats her?”
“ lots of kids’s father beat’ um.” will you get on with it?
“ no, I mean really beats her. The kind of beating they take people to jail for in Arlington” she shook her head in disbelief. (P95/96)