Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.

Stella “Bunny” Huffer’s father, Oscar, owns Norvelt’s funeral parlor and sponsors the baseball team. The team’s real name is the Pirates, but people call them the “Huffer Death Squad.” Bunny, who has a big sense of humor, makes a lot of jokes about dead people. Bunny showed Jack his first dead person, and she laughed when his nose bled.

At the baseball field, Bunny scolds Jack for being late. Jack tells her about Dad’s runway, and Bunny gives Jack Emma Slater’s dentures. When a person dies, Mr. Huffer sews their mouth shut and donates the dentures to the retirement home. When Bunny dies, she wants to be cremated so that her ashes can be “blasted” into space. Mr. Huffer doesn’t like cremation because it’s not profitable.

Mom arrives on her bicycle and chases Jack around the baseball field before catching him and marching him home. Discovering that Jack mowed the rest of her cornfield, she grounds Jack for the summer since he disobeyed her and took food away from people who needed it. Jack can only go out to help Miss Volker. More so, Mom knows about Dad’s airplane, and she won’t allow Jack in it.