Haywood

Five Minutes in America · Sep 28, 2026 · 5m

Lunch has been cleared away, the rubber balls are out, and Mitchell Haywood is playing harder than anybody expected.

Then the other kids begin hollering a name across the gym.

“Haywood!”

For the past two weeks, Mitchell has been trying to lose another name: the new kid.

To understand why hearing his own name matters so much, we have to go back to the morning he first arrived in Coffman’s Landing.

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