<Dd> Gordy is a student who attends Reardan, wears glasses, and does everything in the name of science . Gordy always speaks in a sophisticated and proper manner throughout the novel . He is one of the smartest students at the school and he eventually becomes Junior's first real friend at Reardan . Gordy also helps Junior with schoolwork and encourages his enjoyment of reading books . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> Penelope </Dt> <Dd> Junior's crush and good friend from Reardan High . She has blonde hair and Junior thinks that she is very attractive . She enjoys helping others, is bulimic, and has a racist father named Earl . She is popular and plays on the Reardan volleyball team . She is obsessed with leaving the small town behind and traveling the world . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Junior's crush and good friend from Reardan High . She has blonde hair and Junior thinks that she is very attractive . She enjoys helping others, is bulimic, and has a racist father named Earl . She is popular and plays on the Reardan volleyball team . She is obsessed with leaving the small town behind and traveling the world . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> Eugene </Dt> <Dd> The best friend of Junior's father . "Eugene was a nice guy, and like an uncle to me, but he was drunk all the time," Junior reveals . He becomes an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for the tribal ambulance service, and, for a brief time, drives a 1946 Indian Chief Roadmaster . Eugene dies after his close friend Bobby shoots him in the face during a dispute over alcohol . Bobby hangs himself in jail . </Dd> </Dl>

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