Flipped · Garden Heights

Part 7

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What Happens in Part 7

At the basket-boy auction Bryce loses his footing entirely, and Chet tells him there is no going back.

Politeness that unsettlesChapter 13 belongs to Bryce Loski, and it reuses the title of Juli's Chapter 2 because now it is his turn to tell it. Since the dinner, Juli Baker has been only polite to him, which unsettles him far more than her old attention ever did.

The auctionThe Booster Club holds its yearly basket-boy auction: twenty eighth-grade boys pack picnic lunches and the top bidder eats lunch with the boy. Garrett warns him that Jenny, Shelly Stalls and Miranda Humes all plan to bid, so Bryce spends the week charming Shelly and Miranda to keep Jenny from winning.

Bidding on someone elseAt the auction Juli does not bid on him at all. She bids on Jon Trulock, a quiet boy nobody else is bidding for, while Shelly and Miranda pool their money and take Bryce for a school record of $122.50.

Crossing the roomThe lunch is empty talk and cruel jokes about Jenny. Seeing Juli laughing with Jon, Bryce snaps at his own table, the two girls fight, and he crosses the room and tries to kiss Juli. She dodges him and leaves. He cuts Garrett off, cannot reach her by phone, and Chet Duncan tells him there is no going back.

What We Will Learn

Section	What you will practice
Vocabulary	Words for a change of heart: remorse, concede, revise, entrenched, complicit…
Literary Elements	A repeated chapter title, a full reversal, and the irony of getting what you arranged
Cross-Curricular	Belief revision — why changing your mind is far harder than being wrong

Chapter Summary

Ch.	What happens
13	Flipped — Bryce narrates, and the chapter borrows its title from Juli’s Chapter 2 because this time the flipping is his. Since the dinner at the Bakers’ house Juli has been merely polite to him, and the politeness unsettles him far more than the old attention ever did. Meanwhile the school’s Booster Club runs its yearly basket-boy auction: twenty eighth-grade boys pack picnic lunches, girls bid, and the top bidder eats with the boy. Garrett reports that Jenny, Shelly Stalls and Miranda Humes all mean to bid, so Bryce spends the week charming Shelly and Miranda to keep Jenny from winning. At the auction Juli bids on Jon Trulock instead, and Shelly and Miranda pool their money for a record $122.50. The lunch is empty chatter and cruel jokes about Jenny; when Bryce sees Juli laughing with Jon he snaps at his own table, the two girls tear into each other, and he crosses the cafeteria, takes Juli’s hand and tries to kiss her. She dodges and goes. Bryce ends his friendship with Garrett, cannot get Juli to the phone, and hears from Chet Duncan that there is no going back now.

Ch.

What happens

13

Flipped — Bryce narrates, and the chapter borrows its title from Juli’s Chapter 2 because this time the flipping is his. Since the dinner at the Bakers’ house Juli has been merely polite to him, and the politeness unsettles him far more than the old attention ever did. Meanwhile the school’s Booster Club runs its yearly basket-boy auction: twenty eighth-grade boys pack picnic lunches, girls bid, and the top bidder eats with the boy. Garrett reports that Jenny, Shelly Stalls and Miranda Humes all mean to bid, so Bryce spends the week charming Shelly and Miranda to keep Jenny from winning. At the auction Juli bids on Jon Trulock instead, and Shelly and Miranda pool their money for a record $122.50. The lunch is empty chatter and cruel jokes about Jenny; when Bryce sees Juli laughing with Jon he snaps at his own table, the two girls tear into each other, and he crosses the cafeteria, takes Juli’s hand and tries to kiss her. She dodges and goes. Bryce ends his friendship with Garrett, cannot get Juli to the phone, and hears from Chet Duncan that there is no going back now.

Part 1

Vocabulary

Study 10 key words from Chapter 13, then answer each question.

📚Knowledge Bank · The Language of a Change of Heart

Psychology & Language · Words for RevisingChapter 13 asks for a vocabulary most people never practice, because most people never change their minds out loud. To concede is to admit that somebody else was right after you argued the other way; it describes a position, not a feeling, and it happens in front of witnesses. To revise is quieter and cheaper: you adjust a view because new information arrived, the way a scientist edits a number without apologizing for the old one. Remorse is what shows up when you finally see what your earlier view cost another person, and it is not the same as regret, which can be entirely about yourself. Amends are what remorse builds when it refuses to stay a feeling — an action that repairs something and costs the person doing it. Watch which of these Bryce actually reaches in this chapter. He feels a great deal and says almost nothing, and the whole tension sits in the gap between a private change and a public act.

remorsen.Ch.13

Deep regret for something you did to another person

“Remorse arrived about four years later than it would have been useful.”

concedev.Ch.13

To admit a point is true after arguing against it

“It costs almost nothing to concede a point and almost everything to say it.”

revisev.Ch.13

To change a view or plan because new information arrived

“Only new information should make you revise a first impression.”

amendsn.Ch.13

Something done to repair a wrong you caused

“Feeling sorry is free; amends have to be paid for.”

rationalizev.Ch.13

To invent a reasonable-sounding excuse for something

“He could rationalize a whole week of charming the wrong two girls.”

entrenchedadj.Ch.13

Firmly fixed in place and very hard to change

“Six years of calling her a nuisance left the opinion entrenched.”

spectaclen.Ch.13

A public display that draws stares

“Twenty boys holding picnic baskets is a spectacle by any measure.”

complicitadj.Ch.13

Involved in someone else’s wrongdoing, often by going along

“Laughing at the joke made him complicit in it.”

conspicuousadj.Ch.13

Easy to notice; standing out from everything around it

“Standing on a stage with a picnic basket made him conspicuous.”

resolven.Ch.13

Firm determination to carry something through

“By that night he had the resolve to do something about it.”

ⓘ 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.

🧠Knowledge Bank question

1According to the Knowledge Bank, how do remorse and regret differ?Ch.13

2To admit a point is true after arguing against it is to ___.Ch.13

3‘Entrenched’ describes an opinion that is firmly fixed and hard to change.Ch.13

4Someone who goes along with another person’s wrongdoing is ___.Ch.13

5Fill in each blank with the correct word.Ch.13

Word choices:conspicuousspectaclereviseremorse- some words will not be used

Standing on a stage with a picnic basket made him .

Only new information should make you a first impression.

6To ‘rationalize’ a choice is to admit honestly that it was a mistake.Ch.13

7Something done to repair a wrong you caused is called ___.Ch.13

8A ‘conspicuous’ person is one that nobody happens to notice.Ch.13

9Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Ch.13

Word choices:concedecomplicitresolveentrenched- some words will not be used

He would rather lose the argument than it out loud.

By that night he finally had the to do something.

10A public display that draws stares is a ___.Ch.13

Part 2

Comprehension

Show you understood what happens in Chapter 13.

📋Knowledge Bank · Why a Mind Changes Slowly

Psychology · Belief RevisionBeing wrong is easy; noticing it is the expensive part. A belief is never stored by itself. It is tied to habits, to friendships, and to things you have already announced in front of people, so tugging on one belief pulls the whole bundle along with it. When new evidence refuses to fit, the mind feels a strain researchers call dissonance, and there are only three exits from it: change the belief, change the behavior, or manufacture a reason that lets both survive. The third exit is cheapest, which is why most people take it, and every excuse packs the old belief a little firmer. Attention makes the trouble worse, because people find whatever fits what they already think and slide straight past the rest, a habit called confirmation bias. What finally moves a person is rarely a clever argument. It is usually an experience that cannot be explained away — a lunch table, say, where the company you chose turns out to be cruel.

A school cafeteria serving counter seen from behind the food: a girl reaches across for a tray of carrot sticks, with cups of fruit and packets of cut vegetables laid out in front of her — Photograph of a school cafeteria serving counter, taken for a United States nutrition program. The *Knowledge Bank* says an argument rarely changes a mind and an experience sometimes does, and it names one: a lunch table where the company you chose turns out to be cruel. This is the minute before that — a child collecting her food, about to carry it somewhere and sit down with somebody. No lunch table is in the frame, and nothing here is staged from the novel. Notice how ordinary it looks. The experiences that change what a person believes almost never announce themselves in advance.
School cafeteria at lunch; US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons, file "20130308-FNS-LSC-0413", public domain.

🧠Knowledge Bank question

1According to the Knowledge Bank, what finally moves a person?Ch.13

2What is a ‘basket boy’ at the Booster Club auction?Ch.13

3Why does Bryce spend the week charming Shelly Stalls and Miranda Humes?Ch.13

4Who does Juli bid on at the auction?Ch.13

5Write the numbers 1–5 in the boxes to show the correct order of events in Chapter 13. Number 1 = what happens first.Ch.13

Bryce crosses the cafeteria, reaches for Juli, and she gets away.
Garrett warns him that Jenny, Shelly and Miranda all plan to bid.
At lunch the two girls mock Jenny, then turn on each other.
Juli bids on Jon Trulock, and Shelly and Miranda win Bryce together.
After the dinner, Juli treats Bryce with a politeness that unsettles him.

6Shelly Stalls and Miranda Humes put their money together to win Bryce’s basket.Ch.13

7What finally makes Bryce snap during the lunch?Ch.13

8Bryce still counts Garrett as a friend at the end of the chapter.Ch.13

9How does Juli respond when Bryce tries to kiss her in the cafeteria?Ch.13

10Chet Duncan tells Bryce that all of this can easily be put back the way it was.Ch.13

Part 3

Literary Elements

Understanding HOW and WHY Wendelin Van Draanen tells the story across Chapter 13.

🧠Knowledge Bank · The Title That Comes Back

Literary Craft · Echo and ReversalChapter 2 was called Flipped and belonged to Juli. Chapter 13 carries the same title and belongs to Bryce. Van Draanen never explains the repetition, because the repetition is the explanation: the book’s opening move has been run a second time with the narrators swapped. That is a reversal, the oldest way a novel signals that a character has traveled a real distance. What makes this one sharp is that readers have watched it coming for chapters while Bryce insisted nothing was happening, so the title lands as irony before it lands as news. The echo also does the job an explanation would spoil. Nobody has to write a sentence saying that Bryce now feels what Juli felt in second grade, because the contents page has already said it. Notice how much of this novel is built out of ordinary things that simply happen twice.

Visual AidThe same title, run a second time

Diagram for the Knowledge Bank on the repeated chapter title, setting the two chapters that share it side by side. It gives the chapter numbers and the narrators and nothing else, so no event in either is revealed. It does not claim a repeated title always signals a reversal; it says this one does. Notice that the only thing that changed is who is speaking. Everything the reversal means has to be carried by that single swap.

Chapter titles as printed in the novel. Drawn for Garden Heights Academy.

Reversal

The story turns a character all the way around, so that Bryce ends up standing where Juli stood in Chapter 1 — outside, wanting, unanswered.

Echoed chapter title

Chapter 13 reuses the title of Chapter 2, Flipped, which had been Juli’s. The contents page reports the change before the chapter does.

Situational irony

Bryce gets exactly what he arranged all week — the popular bidders, the winning bid, the lunch — and it turns out to be the last thing he wants.

🧠Knowledge Bank question

1According to the Knowledge Bank, why does the repeated title need no explanation?Ch.13

2Fill in each blank with the correct literary term.Ch.13

Word choices:reversalironysettingdialogue- some words will not be used

A turn that leaves a character in the opposite position is a .

Getting exactly what you arranged and hating it is .

3Bryce winning the lunch he schemed for and hating every minute of it is ___.Ch.13

4Chapter 13 is narrated by Juli Baker.Ch.13

5Van Draanen states outright that Bryce now feels what Juli felt in second grade.Ch.13

6The lunch with Shelly and Miranda mainly works to ___.Ch.13

7Fill in the blank with the correct literary term.Ch.13

Word choices:echoclimaxrhymepreface- some words will not be used

A title used a second time on purpose is an .

8By the end of Chapter 13, Bryce and Juli have traded the positions they held in Chapter 1.Ch.13

9Ending the chapter on Chet’s warning rather than a reunion mainly ___.Ch.13

10Chapter 13 mostly asks readers to ___.Ch.13

Part 4

Think Deeper

Four deeper challenges — no single-word recall. Read, weigh the evidence, and reason it out.

💡Knowledge Bank · Judging a Change of Heart

Ethics · Apology and AmendsA change of heart is easy to announce and hard to trust, so it helps to have a test. Feeling bad is not the test. Remorse that stays inside the person who caused the harm is comfortable for exactly one of the two people involved. The useful questions are narrower: does the person name the specific wrong rather than a vague one, does the apology come attached to a cost the person actually pays, and does the new behavior hold up on a day when nobody is watching. Notice that a grand gesture can fail all three at once; it can be loud, cheap, and aimed mostly at the giver’s own relief. Notice too that the injured person is under no obligation to accept on anybody else’s schedule. Taking time is not rudeness. It is the only way to learn whether a change was a mood, and it is why a fair reader judges Bryce by the same standard as any other claim — by asking for evidence.

Picture the cafeteria in the middle of Chapter 13. A boy is sitting at the table he spent a whole week engineering: the right bidders, the record price, the lunch everyone can see. The conversation is about nothing, the jokes are about a girl who is not there to defend herself, and across the room somebody he has spent six years avoiding is laughing at a different table. Nothing new has been announced. No one has told him anything he did not already know. He simply cannot sit in his own arrangement any longer, and when he finally gets up and crosses the room, he does it so clumsily that the one person he wants to reach gets away from him. The chapter takes its title from Juli’s second chapter on purpose.

Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.

1Claim: “Chapter 13 shows a change of mind that has already happened but has not yet been paid for.” — choose the two details that best prove it.Claim & Evidence

2What Bryce used to believe, or What Chapter 13 replaces it with? Tap each detail to sort it — tap again to switch sides. You can keep tapping to change your answer.Sort into two

◄ What Bryce used to believeWhat Chapter 13 replaces it with ►

3Match each cause to its result. For each cause, pick its result.Cause & Effect

Juli turns polite after the dinner at her house→

Garrett reports that Jenny plans to bid on Bryce→

Juli spends her bid on Jon Trulock instead of Bryce→

Bryce reaches for Juli in front of the cafeteria→

🧠Knowledge Bank question

4Fill both blanks to complete the reasoning.Build the Argument

The Knowledge Bank says feeling bad is not the test because , which shows that .

Part 5

Standardized Test

Reading passage · Changing Your Mind · Words in Context & Central Ideas · SAT & TOEFL-style practice

The Discomfort of Changing Your Mind

Changing your mind sounds like the simplest thing in the world. In practice it is one of the hardest things a person ever does, because a belief is almost never stored on its own. It sits inside a web of habits, friendships and statements already made out loud, so pulling one thread tugs on all of them. Psychologists call the discomfort that follows dissonance — the strain of holding two ideas that will not fit together.

There are only three ways out of that strain. A person can change the belief, change the behavior, or rationalize — invent a reason that lets both stand — and the third is by far the cheapest. That is why an old opinion becomes entrenched: every excuse packs the ground a little firmer around it. Attention makes the problem worse, since people notice the evidence that fits what they already think and skate past the evidence that does not.

Researchers who study belief revision find that most of the cost is social. To concede a point is to admit in public that you were wrong before, and audiences are unkind about that. People who revise well tend to share three habits: they say in advance what evidence would change their view, they treat a correction as information rather than an attack, and they change quietly instead of announcing it. None of this makes a mind flip in a moment. Real revision looks slow, awkward and slightly embarrassing, which is exactly how it feels from the inside.

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, dissonance is the strain of ___.TOEFL · Factual Information

3In the passage, “rationalize” most nearly means ___.SAT · Words in Context

4In the passage, an opinion described as entrenched is ___.TOEFL · Vocabulary

5In the passage, to concede a point is to ___.SAT · Words in Context

6The passage says the cheapest way out of the strain is to ___.TOEFL · Factual Information

7According to the passage, a belief is hard to move because it is tied to ___.TOEFL · Factual Information

8The passage suggests a correction is most useful when it is treated as ___.SAT · Inference

9The passage implies that people who revise their views well tend to ___.SAT · Inference

10According to the passage, attention makes belief change harder because people ___.TOEFL · Factual Information

Part 6 · Optional

Creative Writing

A bonus challenge to practice your English. Take your time and have fun with it.

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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 7 “The Week I Was Wrong”

Bryce spends a week arranging exactly the lunch he thinks he wants, and one hour of it is enough to change his mind about almost everything. Write about a time you changed your mind about a person, a place, or an activity. What did you believe first, what happened, and what made the new opinion stick? 6–10 sentences. End by naming one thing that made the change hard to admit out loud.

You can start with: “For a long time I was completely sure about it, and then…”

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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.

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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.