Young adult fiction note week 13: Continue Oates

Education in the United States:

• Education in the United States is provided by public schools and private schools.
• Education is compulsory over an age range starting between five and eight and ending somewhere between ages sixteen and eighteen, depending on the state.

Oates's sign is Gemini:

Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It was one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. 

The Internet Movie Database (abbreviated IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs andvideo games, including cast, production crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries, trivia and reviews.

A decrepit car is a car that is often old and damaged and is in a barely functional state. Numerous slang terms are used to describe such cars, which vary by country and region, including hoopty, jalopy, shed, clunker,lemon, banger, bomb, beater, rust bucket, voodoo, wreck, or rattletrap.