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Some time after that, Rafe starts talking to Leo as a kind of imaginary friend. Rafe starts the sixth grade at Hills Village Middle School. The first day isn't great—he gets picked on by a bully named Miller and is nearly bored to death at a school assembly in the gym.
Rafe gets really bored, and he and his friend Leonardo 'Leo' the Silent invent "Operation R.A.F.E." (stands for "Rules Aren't For Everyone"), a challenge to break every rule in his middle school handbook. He starts Operation R.A.F.E. by pulling the fire alarm. Luckily, Rafe doesn’t get caught.
- Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson
- 2011
Rafe Khatchadorian, a sixth-grader at HVMS, is the first-person narrator and protagonist of the story. He wants readers to know immediately that his only friend is Leo.
He doesn't talk, except to Rafe, and only once in a while. He goes to Hills Village Middle School, but no other teachers or students ever see him. He just sort of disappears when other people walk up to Rafe.
To start, he's just a mild-mannered sixth grader trying to make it in the big bad world of middle school. He doesn't have any friends. His one buddy is Leo the Silent, who—and this is the depressing part—isn't actually a real person.
The aftermath forces Rafe to confront the reality of his actions. It is then revealed that Leonardo was a coping mechanism Rafe created following his brother's death, who he'd been missing terribly. In the end, Rafe's mother, Jules, uncovers his notebook outlining 'Operation R.A.F.E.'
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Mom gets worried as she sees Rafe’s grades plummeting and hears he’s been talking to Leo. Bear calls Rafe a freak and threatens punishment. A bully known as Miller the Killer steals Rafe’s journal and blackmails him, forcing Rafe to buy back the book a page at a time.
