- Hub and Fat get involved with Mr. Sutton's athletic club with the hopes of winning prize money.
- Honey's economic fortunes again take a turn for the worse. The bank is increasing the rent on the apartment, and she loses her job at Molloy's Grocery Store. She is thinking of moving to faraway Toronto, where she suspects there are more jobs than in North Bridge. She needs the company of her children now more than ever. However May is threatening to decrease the boys' visits to North Bridge to once a month, in part because she wants to shield escort Grace from the company of a high school beau, Judd Wainwright, with whom Grace got reacquainted on the bus trip and who May never liked. And since Grace doesn't know how to drive, there is no other means of transport. May's effort to teach Grace to drive was a disaster, the lesson which resulted in a car crash requiring extensive and expensive repairs to May's car, and May landing in the hospital for an extended stay with a concussion. The boys, wanting more than ever to be with their mother, try to earn enough money for it to happen. They think they've come up with the perfect plan when Max is threatened by the school board with cutting of the athletics program: they should hold an intercity Boys Olympics sponsored by local businesses, including the newspaper - the New Bedford Chronicle - owned by Alden Cramp. The showcase of the Olympics is to be the 12-boy human pyramid, the winning team who will split a $60 first prize. Hub and Fat are certain the New Bedford team can win. The boys' training goes up and down, but ultimately it looks as if the New Bedford team has a real shot of winning. On the weekend of the Olympics, Honey is in desperate need of her boys' company to maintain a positive outlook on life. Although the boys initially aren't going to go to North Bridge due to the need for last minute training, they feel they need to support their mother more. With no other way to get there, Grace decides to drive. With Judd's assistance, they make it to North Bridge in one piece. Seeing how financially desperate Honey is, Grace decides that the $25 for the car repairs would better go to Honey. Although the $25 is May's money, Grace will deal with the consequences of May's wrath later. But the next issue is to make it back to New Bedford in time for the Olympics, which is a problem as Grace is directionally and speed challenged, not to mention that she has no idea what the "E" and "F" on the car's fuel gauge means. Regardless of if the boys make it back in time, the Olympics end up having a positive effect on Max, the boys and the school board, the latter who was initially skeptical of the whole event.—Huggo
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