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Mrs. Turton is Suzy’s seventh-grade teacher. She notices that Suzy has been acting different from how she used to act in previous school years and decides to try to help her. She invites Suzy to have lunch with her in her classroom, eventually inviting Justin and Sarah to come in too. Ultimately, Mrs. Turton helps Suzy better learn how to make new friends and how to deal with bullying.
Mrs. Turton Quotes in The Thing About Jellyfish
The The Thing About Jellyfish quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Turton or refer to Mrs. Turton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 31 Quotes
“You know, Suzy,” Mrs. Turton said, “I eat my lunches in here. You’re welcome to join me. I’m always here if you want to talk.”
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Chapter 41 Quotes
Which means you can go anywhere. You just need a good plan, a destination, money to get you there, and enough deep breaths that you don’t lose your nerve.
You can just step onto the plane and disappear.
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Chapter 46 Quotes
“Don’t worry, Belle,” he said. He patted my arm. “I got this one.”
He picked up the dead earthworm with tweezers and laid it out on the table in front of us. It looked just like every other earthworm I’d ever seen, except that it lay there like a limp piece of string.
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Chapter 62 Quotes
But I stopped squinting. I placed my mom’s phone in my shirt pocket, next to the photo of Aaron. I took a deep breath.
“Yeah,” I said to Sarah. “Let’s go.”
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Mrs. Turton Character Timeline in The Thing About Jellyfish
The timeline below shows where the character Mrs. Turton appears in The Thing About Jellyfish. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...things just happen.” Suzy hated this answer. She prefers the things that her new teacher Mrs. Turton says about how science is a way of coming up with explanations for things that...
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Chapter 10
...who asked those kinds of questions didn’t care about the answer. She thought about how Mrs. Turton might be a good seventh-grade teacher but didn’t say it. She told the class that...
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Chapter 12
Before science class, Mrs. Turton always tells the class about current events or science history. The day before the aquarium...
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Mrs. Turton tells the students to pair up for a group project. Suzy gets stuck with Justin...
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At the end of end of class that day, Mrs. Turton stops Suzy to ask if she had a research report topic yet. Suzy realizes she...
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Chapter 24
The weather starts to get colder, and students begin presenting their science reports in Mrs. Turton ’s class. Justin does a report on mutated cats. A student named Sarah Johnston does...
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Chapter 29
On the day of the science report, Mrs. Turton asks Suzy if she’s ready. Suzy goes to the front of the room to begin....
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Suzy insists that she isn’t finished with her jellyfish report, so Mrs. Turton allows a couple more minutes. She begins talking about how some deadly jellyfish have begun...
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...too. Suzy realizes it’s because she has such frizzy hair, and she starts to cry. Mrs. Turton tells them all to be quiet. To distract herself, Suzy writes a note in her...
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Chapter 31
When the bell rings on the day of Suzy’s report, Mrs. Turton asks Suzy to stay behind for a moment. As he leaves, Justin gives Suzy a...
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Chapter 35
...cough “Medusa” around her. She is so tired of this that she decides to see Mrs. Turton for lunch after all. Mrs. Turton is happy to see Suzy and says she’s a...
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...you traveled at the speed of light, you’d never make it all the way across. Mrs. Turton puts on a nature documentary that she thinks Suzy will like. Justin walks by to...
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Chapter 39
...on display. The people she did see included Aaron, Rocco, her mom and dad, and Mrs. Turton , whom she hadn’t had as a teacher yet. Aubrey and Molly were together and...
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Chapter 43
...life at school. It feels good to have a plan. She keeps having lunch in Mrs. Turton ’s room. Mrs. Turton always welcomes her and sometimes Justin too, and she doesn’t mind...
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Chapter 62
...she says she’s just a regular guy, and regular guys can be heroes. They find Mrs. Turton , who is wearing a T-shirt that says “I Teach Science. What’s Your Superpower?” Before...
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...when Suzy squints, she imagines them all as jellyfish pulsing around. Sarah notices Justin and Mrs. Turton inside. For just a moment, Suzy considers her mom’s phone, which is still in her...
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