Though these bus trips happened a lot, they weren't a part of every day I volunteered. One day we went to play in the James Rive
r, and on another we visited the city's famous Children's Museum. (To the kids, this glorified playground was the talk of the town). In the last sentence, what is "glorified playground" an example of?
Feeling mistreated, Tom resolves to act on his earlier impulse to become a pirate. He meets Joe Harper, who is likewise disaffected because his mother has wrongly accused and punished him for stealing cream.
