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Eleven Birthdays by Wendy Mass

Daily summary of Eleven Birthday days & cause & effect of changes

Eleven Birthdays

Introduction

This page includes a list of the eleven, eleventh birthday tha Amanda and Leo must relive in the book 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass. The list is a summary of the difference of each day to compare how the plot change parallels plots for all eleven birthdays and analyze the cause and effects of the different changes.

The list was created with a class jig-saw procedure and compiled in the chart below!

Daily summary of Eleven Birthday days
 

Wakes up

On the way to school:

Morning

Lunch

Afternoon

Night

Day 1
Chapter
Anne Pinkelman

  • Amanda is scarred, thinks somebody in her room, it was a Spongebob balloon.
  • Throws on jeans, favorite red T, and beaded necklace
  • Kylie's door open, enters, looks at Kylie's diary, does not read it
  • Goes downstairs and finds out her dad is sick
  • Does not notice anything and sits in a seat by herself.
  • Stephanie does not see her and sits with Ruby
  • Stephanie said she decorated Amanda's locker
  • Locker will not open
    so she is late to class and there is a pop quiz
  • Finds janitor to fix locker
  • Stephanie, Emma, Tracey and Amanda share their lunch
  • Amanda leaves lunch room and runs into six grade boy who forgot his assignment
  • Amanda goes back to cafeteria and gets her birthday cupcake and candle
  • Locker gets fixed
  • Sees Leo crying in the guidance counselors office
  • Goes to gymnastic tryouts and completely bombs
  • Her dad is sick and cannot help out with her party
  • Wears her itchy Dorothy costume
  • Kylie dresses up as the Little Mermaid
  • Dad D.J.'s but is sick and keeps coughing
  • Stephanie ditches the party to go to Leo's
  • Amanda's mom tells her that she was fired today
  • Goes to bed disappointed

Day 2
Chapter
Ashley Slavin

Amanda wakes up and thinks her family is playing a joke on her

Amanda is afraid to change anything she does, so she just goes along with the entire day, just as she did the day before.

     
  • She puts bandaids on her heels and realizes she must not be dreaming if her heels hurt from the shoes she was wearing the day before at her party
  • She goes to bed depressed, hoping everything she just expereinced was a dream, even though she is pretty sure it wasn't.

Day 3
Chapter

Kelsee Katsampes

  • See Sponge Bob and realizes that it is still her birthday
  • Band-Aids are still on her heals from the day before
  • Changes up the routine and tells her mom she is sick
    like her dad.
  • Her mom wonders how she could possibly know her dad is sick.
  • Amanda's mom lets her stay home from school.
  • Cancels her party
  • Amanda reads Kylie's diary.
  • Stephanie calls from school to see if Amanda is okay.
  • Mrs. Grayson takes Amanda to the doctor.
  • Mrs. Grayson mentions a family feud between Amanda and Leo's families
   

Stephanie tells her that she made the gymnastic team and asks if she can go to Leo's party

  • Amanda eats pizza and watches movies with her family for her birthday.
  • Kylie and Amanda have a real conversation.
  • Amanda opens her presents, she gets a journal from Kylie and gift cards from her parents.
  • Amanda's mom gets fired, but dose not tell Kylie this time.

Day 4
Chapter
Thad Nixon

  • Wakes up grumpy
  • Remembers to take lunch
  • Tells Kylie that Dustin will be sitting with Alyssa (admits to reading diary).
  • Does not bother to look for Stephanie and Ruby.
  • Notices the duck shaped birthmark on the female bus driver.
  • Grabs the lollipop on the floor.
  • Leo's actions are different from before.
  • Leo winks at Amanda.
  • Leo gets hall pass and leaves a note for Amanda (4th time birthday).
  • Amanda talks with Leo.
  • Amanda and Leo figure out that they are both experiencing the same day.
  • Amanda states that they are still not friends.
  • Leo tells Amanda that he will sneak over after his party.
  • Gymnastic tryouts the same (still humiliating).
  • Kylie upset and she is not wearing her costume.
  • Amanda tells her that she looks good in her costume (another mess up).
  • Kylie didn't ask Dustin to dance.
  • Dustin going to dance with Alyssa.
  • Mom is angry after the party and blames Amanda for sabotaging her presentation.
  • Kylie told mom that Amanda knew she had taken the homework instead and put the presentation in the garbage.
  • Leo comes to the door and is sent away because Amanda was in big trouble.

Day 5
Chapter 12 and 13

Heidi Nollette

  • Wake up: Happy to see Spongebob knowing mom and Kylie aren't mad at her anymore and she and Leo are in it together.
  • Remembered to switch the posters/presentations.
  • Kylie forgot her lunch, so Amanda grabbed both (Kylie didn't seem all that grateful).
  • She sits with Stephanie on the bus.
  • Finds out Leo decorated her locker, not Stephanie.
  • Amanda and Leo meet in the courtyard and talk about their fight and what they should do.
  • They plan to skip school the next day and decide that havinng a do-over could be fun.
  • Leaving the courtyard, their peers see that they're friends and are whispering and staring.
 

 

Evening: not mentioned.

Day 6
Chapter
Melisa Hemenway

  • Sick again
  • Convinced dad to call off Drs. Appt.
  • Canceled b-day party.
  • Empties piggy bank and gets gift cards.
  • Leo comes over, sneaks out past sleeping dad.

 

  • Borrowed 2 scooters form the Schwartz's garage.
  • Go out for breakfast tells waitress they won a contest.
  • Leo tells Stephanie not to call Amanda.
  • Go to poetry reading, Leo reads a poem for Amanda.
  • Lunch In the park, just Leo and Amanda.
  • Hot dogs and Cokes
  • Amanda tries out for the band.
  • Both get t-shirts.
  • Go to the Mall, get busted.
  • Mall cop can't believe their names.
  • Take scooters back and apologize.
  • Amanda and Leo get into major trouble.
  • Amanda's mom doesn't get fired.

Day 7
Chapter
Cara Riese

  • Amanda wakes up:
    happy to see Sponge Bob.
  • Amanda hugs all of her family members
    still wearing born to rock t-shirt.
  • Amanda looks for poem from Leo.
  • Lady bus driver (Angelina), almost too short to reach petals.
  • Receives a note from Leo in the locker.
  • Leo and Amanda pass notes back and forth in class trying not to get caught.

No mention of lunch

  • Leo and Amanda see hypnotist.
  • Leo and Amanda went to senior citizen center to find out about families.
  • Leo's mom picks up Leo and Amanda.
  • Amanda had her party.
  • Amanda's mom got fired
  • Amanda throws costume away.
  • Amanda draws a chart of periodic table.

Day 8
Chapter

Karissa Rose Meyer

  • Amanda wakes up: and realizes she forgot to keep the periodic table on her body the night before. So it is gone.
  • Left her backpack at school, yet it is downstairs - bit scary.
  • Decides to tell Stephine she will try out for gymnastics, so she can go to the Historical Museum.
  • Guilty for forgetting the periodic table, purposely avoids Bee Boy.
  • Instead, overhears Leo with the guidance counselor.
  • Hears Vinnie is picking on him, he has tried several different techniques to stop it, and none worked.

 

     
  • After school, Leo's mom takes them to the Historical Society.
  • They enter raccoon. and a small woman
  • Amanda recognizes duck birthmark.
  • Learns she drives her bus, in the mornings.
  • Ask about their great-great grandparents and the feud.
  • She explains some details, find she stole the journal, but claims she lost it in a fire.
  • Don't feel found out much, but as leaving Amanda says see ya on the bus, tommorrow, and Angelina says, See ya then.

Keeps Amanda awake for hours later that
night.

Day 9
Chapter 19-20
Crystal Heithoff

  • Periodic table is in sweatpants.
  • Before leave-none.
  • Angelina isn't driving.
  • Other guy usual bus driver
  • Tackles Leo in hall.
  • Crowd forms.
  • Stephanie asks what's going on?
Gives Bee Boy the periodic table.
  • Historical Society closed
    sneak in.
  • Look Leo's gr-gr-grfather's journal.
  • Decide make a difference like g-g-gparents did.

Leo's mom takes Amanda home.

Day 10
Chapter
Abby Thompson

  • Pay extra close attention to what is going on around.
  • Amanda and Leo want to help as many people as they can.
  • Amanda untwisted SpongeBob.
  • Brought Dad things for being sick,
  • Switched Kylie and Mom's posters.
  • Offers help to friends.
  • Shares her things with others.
     

Amanda makes the gymnastics team.

  • Instead of 8 kids showing up to her party 13 kids do as a result of her making the gymnastics team.
  • Leo calls and Amanda's party goes to Leo's.
  • Amanda finds out that Leo's party was not all that he had made it to be when he told her about it.
  • Amanda and Leo toast to each other like their grandparents did years before.

 

Day 11
Chapter
Ashley Becvar

  • Amanda throws alarm clock out the window.
  • Amanda makes periodic table for Bee Boy.
  • Amanda calls Leo – talk about why it is still their birthday after do all those good things and
  • They make up.
  • Amanda gives Her dad the get well bag again.
  • Amanda makes sure mom and Kylie get the right posters/presentations
  • Amanda notices the bus driver is Angelina.
  • Amanda tells Ruby she is going to do great today in the gymnastics tryouts.
  • When everyone else gets off the bus Amanda stays on to talk with Angelina.
  • Amanda and Leo tell Angelina what happened, Ask why it didn't work.
  • Amanda asks why Angelina never read the book.
  • Amanda finds out Angelina is the reason this is happening.
  • Amanda and Leo find pottery & plants from 5th birthday may be why what they tried didn't work.
  • Amanda admits to throwing her plant out the window on their 10th birthday after she heard what Leo said.
 
  • Amanda notices only one minute late when they were more like a half hour late.
  • Amanda  gives Bee Boy science project.
  • Angelina told Her and Leo to do what comes naturally.
  • Amanda chooses to try out for band and realizes the results will be posted Monday so she may never know if she made it or not.
  • Amanda meets Leo and Angelina outside her bedroom window to find the broken pottery.
  • Amanda and Leo replant the pottery plant.
  • Amanda calls everyone and tells them to go straight to Leo's party.
  • Amanda and Kylie discuss Kylie's date for the prom (Lego boy).
  • Amanda takes mom's cell phone out of her pocketbook and hides it in the kitchen.
  • At Leo's (the party):
  • Amanda talks to some kids she saw at band tryouts.
  • Amanda and Leo toast to their friendship.

 

List of Changes from first day to final day to add possible cause & effect

Amanda and Leo became friends again - planted the apple tree and toasted their friendship

Amanda tries out for band

 

Have party together

 

Sister

 

Mom

 

Bee boy

 

Sister

 

Mom

 

Eats lunch

 

Read sister's diary

 

Has date 20 years

 

Can make the gymnastics team

 

Leo reads her a poem

 

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