For our "board work" today, in her notebook Lena completed sentences discussing parallels between the "secret" lives of bees and Lily's secret life as a runaway who accidentally killed her mother. We then continued reading chapter 8. We focused on why Lily's seeing the happy family pictures on the office wall of Mr. Clayton prompts her to call her estranged father , T .Ray, hoping that somehow his character has radically changed. Inevitably , she is disappointed and hurt by T.Ray's violent reaction to her overture.