Jeannette dashes away and calls for her father to rescue Brian from the smoke-filled shack. One day Jeannette decides they should test for flammability and the shack goes up in flames. The children also love going to the town dump, and Jeannette and Brian begin collecting items from the toxic waste area to do experiments in a rundown shack they have made into their laboratory. She begins a collection and occasionally holds rock sales, although all her specimens are priced in the hundreds of dollars as she refuses to sell them below their worth. Outside of school, the Walls children continue their explorations and Jeannette falls in love with all the beautiful rocks and minerals she discovers in the desert. One day she does not have time to do so and her teacher makes her stay after school to do her homework "properly." Dad thinks she is coasting - not making a real effort - so he has her do her homework in binary numbers, making her translate it back to Arabic numerals after she completes it. The kids are enrolled in school and, this time, Jeannette knows better than to show off her smarts and instead remains quiet in her second-grade classroom.
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