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* FreeRangeKids: Will's mother can't leave the house, and Jonah's parents are out of the picture, so they're free to spend their free time skateboarding and exploring the bad part of town.
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* FreeRangeKids: FreeRangeChildren: Will's mother can't leave the house, and Jonah's parents are out of the picture, so they're free to spend their free time skateboarding and exploring the bad part of town.
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* FreeRangeKids: Will's mother can't leave the house, and Jonah's parents are out of the picture, so they're free to spend their free time skateboarding and exploring the bad part of town.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book seems to be set in TheNineties, judging by the lack of internet and the mention of [[TheEighties shoulder pads]] in a flashback to Will's infancy.
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The Cardiels are named after the skateboarder John Cardiel.
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Eleven-year-old Will Cardiel hasn't been outside since he was a toddler. He's spent most of his life in his house with his severely anxious, agoraphobic mother Diane, with each room named after a different city and decorated with Will's artwork. But one day, an odd banging sound draws him outside, where he meets local foster boy Marcus. When Will reads about Marcus's disappearance in the paper, he wants to solve the mystery, so he asks Diane to let him enroll in public school. There he befriends an Indian boy named Jonah Turtle, who was friends with Marcus.
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Eleven-year-old Will Cardiel hasn't been outside since he was a toddler. He's spent most of his life in his house with his severely anxious, agoraphobic mother Diane, with each room named after a different city and decorated with Will's artwork. But one day, an odd banging sound draws him outside, where he meets local foster boy Marcus. When Will reads about Marcus's disappearance in the paper, he wants to solve the mystery, so he asks Diane to let him enroll in public school. There he befriends an Indian boy named Jonah Turtle, who was friends with Marcus. Jonah introduces Will to skateboarding, and the two investigate together.
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* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler:When Charlie was working at the grain elevator, his best friend Whalen declared a cable sound even though he knew it was weak because he was in a hurry. The cable broke, gruesomely killing Charlie with its whip. Whalen dumped the body in the lake so Diane wouldn't see, then fled Thunder Bay in the hold of a foreign lakeboat.]]
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* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler:When Charlie was working at the grain elevator, his best friend Whalen he declared a cable sound even though he knew it was weak because he was in a hurry. The cable broke, gruesomely killing Charlie his best friend Whalen with its whip. Whalen Charlie dumped the body in the lake so Diane wouldn't see, then fled Thunder Bay in the hold of a foreign lakeboat.]]
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* AbandonedArea: Jonah and Will spend a great deal of time searching the abandoned grain elevators and warehouses by the harbor. They even build an indoor skatepark during winter, when it's too icy to skate outside.
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* AbandonedArea: Jonah and Will spend a great deal of time searching the abandoned grain elevators and warehouses by the harbor. They even build an indoor skatepark during winter, when it's too icy to skate skateboard outside.
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* MentalHandicapMoralCripple: Local crime lord Butler was a law-abiding citizen until he was hit in the head with a boom.
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* MentalHandicapMoralCripple: MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Local crime lord Butler was a law-abiding citizen until he was hit in the head with a boom.
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* TitleDrop: "If I Fall, If I Die" is the title of [[ShowWithinAShow a movie Will makes]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Charlie wasn't actually killed by the grain elevator cable - Whalen was. His body was mutilated beyond recognition, so no one learned the truth until years later.]]
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* MentalHandicapMoralCripple: Local crime lord Butler was a law-abiding citizen until he was hit in the head with a boom.
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* DisappearedDad: Will's father, Arthur, lives in the Netherlands with his new family. Will has talked to him on the phone a few times, but they had nothing to say to each other.
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* DisappearedDad: Will's father, Arthur, is a successful architect who lives in the Netherlands with his new family. Will has talked to him on the phone a few times, but they had nothing to say to each other.
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* MarriedToTheJob: During Arthur and Diane's relationship, Arthur was always either at his drafting table or attending an architectural conference. He was so absent from her and Will's lives that when they split up, she found it hard to care.
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* SkippingSchool: Jonah fakes disasters like a HouseFire to get out of school. Will learns from him and starts writing in sick so he can look for Marcus with Jonah.
