Real-life Connections
The book includes several elements related to the author's real life.
- The two main characters are named for the author's children, Todd and Lisa Nelson.
- The story takes place in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, Illinois where Lisa and Todd Nelson lived at the time the book was written.
- Grand Avenue does in fact exist in Glen Ellyn, and a careful examination of the text and of a map of Glen Ellyn reveals that the "Chidester Avenue Gang" would have been based only a block away.
- The school teacher Mrs. Moran, who taught Social Studies, mentioned in the book was a real teacher at Hadley Jr. High, also in Glen Ellyn.
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