Summaries: Chapters 7

7 A Fight and a Fire	Kevin and Brian walk over to the Protestants' area and have a look at the mural of Sadie's house. An argument starts with the Protestant teens and a constable and a priest calm them down, avoiding a fight. To raise some more money Sadie starts making and selling chips but sets the kitchen on fire when the ginger-haired boy annoys her outside.
8 Mrs Jackson Gets a Fright	Mr Mullet and Mr Jackson go to the pub and the children are in their beds. Mrs Jackson and Mrs Mullet sit together in the Mullets' kitchen. They speak about the burned kitchen and their girls. Mrs Mullet says that she would kill her Linda if she did something like that to her. But Mrs Jackson says that Linda was with Sadie. So they discuss while they sit together. Sadie is in her bed. She thinks of the kitchen and the flames. Also, she wonders what they are doing on the other side... Kate, Brede, Kevin, Brian and a few other people have a party. After the party Brian and Kevin cross over the street and go into the Protestant area. They see that there has been a fire. Kevin steps into the kitchen and opens the kitchen door, but suddenly Mrs Jackson comes in and cries: "Who is there?"
9 No Surrender	Mrs. Jackson tells her family why she got a fright. Tommy should go to the police. Meanwhile Sadie goes to the McCoys' house. She breaks into the house and puts the light on. She wants to let Kevin know that she was there. She writes some words with a biro on the wooden table. KING BILLY WAS HERE. LONG LIVE KING BILLY. When she is doing that Kevin looks at her: She throws flour at him, flees into the backyard and goes over the backwall. She hides in a dustbin, because she is searched by the Catholics. Luckily nobody finds her.
10 No Sign of Sadie	Kevin has watchers in all the streets around, so that they are able to discover Sadie, in case she tries to escape. When he sees Brian sitting cross-legged with a cramp on the street nodding his head, he decides to guard this side by himself, because Brian doesn't seem to be a very good guard. And who knows, maybe Sadie already got passed him. In Kevin's opinion the things that Sadie did can't get unchallenged.For him it was an act of provocation. And the fights will only end when the other side admits defeat. After he has been sitting there for quite a while he decides to go to bed because he's convinced that Sadie already got home.
11 The Tenth Day of July	Mr. Jackson wants to wake up Sadie for breakfast, when he sees that she didn't lie in her bed the whole night. The Jacksons ask themselves where Sadie could be but they think that she would come back soon whereever she might be now. While Mrs Jackson prepares the lunch, Sadie is not there at all and she wonders if she can hold Sadie's lunch warm. But Sadie is not there in the evening as well, so Tommy and some other children go around to look for her. When they don't find her in the Protestant area, they go into the Catholic quarter to search her there. A couple of Catholic teenagers is standing around in the street. Tommy asks, if they have seen his sister, but they say that they didn't meet her. So Tommy leaves the Catholic quarter to go home.
12 Sadie Discovered	In this chapter Kevin and Brede want to find Sadie because she disappeared the day before. They think that she would have hidden in any of the backyards of the houses in this street. Both make a plan that their friends will make some noise with bang drums and yell at the frontside of the houses while they will be looking around in the backyards. After doing this they still haven't found her. They think that she has gone into any house. Mr Mooney's one is the most thinkable because he left the day before. They go into the house through the frontdoor which isn't locked. They look in all rooms and at last they find Sadie in the kitchen. She says that she couldn't leave because Kevin and his friends were patrolling down the street. When Sadie wants to go Kevin catches her by her arm and says that he will let her go if she cleans their kitchentable which she has made dirty. They all leave Mr Mooney's house and suddenly Sadie screams for help.