Quarta In Stuart Bau's Things Fall Apart

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Quarta has a really hard life in her new school. In this story “The girl who was born with only two arms and two legs.” By Stuart Baum. Quarta, the main character, gives people a chance, but they don’t give her a chance. Quarta’s biggest problem is the mean girl Jenna... The reasons for this is, they underestimated her just by her looks. Everyone judges her, and it's ok to be DIFFERENT! Quarta can’t play some games like others so she is never invited to be on someone's team. How others don’t give her a chance they underestimate her by her looks. They also underestimated her by laughing at her and making rude jokes and staring, but she was kinda used to people staring. But not this time they were rude they called her names like “Freak!”

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