The Wild Robot
This is the name of the main robot character who survives a shipwreck and wakes up on a wild island.
Who is Roz? (or ROZZUM unit 7134)
This is the name of the hot, dry juvenile detention center where boys are forced to dig holes all day in the blazing sun.
What is Camp Green Lake?
Johannes, the extremely fast-running narrator of the story, is this kind of free, wild animal who lives in a park by the sea.
What is a dog? (or canid) or half coyote half dog
This is the name of the overconfident main character who desperately wants a dog but gets cursed with the ability to see animal ghosts instead.
Who is Rex Dexter?
This is the name of the brave 12-year-old main character who dreams of finishing school but has to spend her days fetching water for her family.
Who is Minni? (or Meena)
Roz learns how to be a mother when she adopts an orphaned baby bird of this kind.
What is a goose? (or gosling)
Stanley Yelnats' family believes they have terrible bad luck because of a curse placed on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing" relative from this many generations back.
What is his great-great-grandfather?
Johannes has a very important job to run around and observe everything that happens in the park, earning him this special nickname.
What is "the Eyes"?
Instead of a puppy, Rex's parents buy him this funny "practice pet" named Drumstick, who unfortunately gets flattened by a steamroller.
What is a chicken? (or a rooster)
Minni and her family live in a crowded neighborhood with very little water, located inside this major, bustling city in India.
What is Mumbai?
During the freezing, terrible winter, Roz builds a fire inside this cozy wooden home to keep the island animals warm.
What is the Nest?
This quiet camper, whose real name is Hector Zeroni, runs away from camp and survives by hiding on a mountain shaped like a giant thumb.
Who is Zero?
Johannes reports all his park news to Freya, Meredith, and Samuel, who are three ancient, wise creatures of this animal kind.
What are bison? (or buffalo)
This is the name of Rex's loyal best friend who can't see the ghost animals himself, but still believes Rex and helps him solve the mystery.
Who is Darvish?
Minni's community faces a daily crisis because the city only turns on the neighborhood taps to give them this life-saving liquid for two hours a day.
What is water? (or clean water)
This tiny, incredibly fast-talking squirrel becomes one of Roz and Brightbill’s best friends.
Who is Chitchat?
The Warden is secretly making the boys dig holes because she is looking for the buried treasure of this famous, lipstick-wearing outlaw.
Who is Kissin' Kate Barlow?
Johannes becomes completely mesmerized by a new art museum built in the park plaza that is filled with these beautiful, colorful "rectangles."
What are paintings? (or artwork)
The ghostly wild animals haunting Rex's bedroom—including a rhino, a gorilla, and an elephant—are all trying to find out who killed them at this local park.
What is the Middling Falls Zoo?
When her mother gets too sick to work, Minni has to take over her job working as a house helper in a luxury high-rise building, cleaning and making these delicious round flatbread for Anita Ma'am and Pinky.
What are rotis?
At the end of the book, three flying combat robots with this four-letter name arrive on the island to take Roz back to the factory.
What are the RECOs? (or RECO 1, 2, and 3)
While hiding under an old sunken boat, Zero survives by eating jars of this extremely old, sweet, spiced peach jam.
What is Sploosh?
This cheerful visiting goat with uniquely crisscrossed horns becomes a close friend to Johannes and teaches him about the vast "mainland" beyond the park.
Who is Helene?
Rex gets his spooky superpower after playing and losing a mysterious, old-fashioned carnival arcade game called this.
What is The Reaper's Curse?
While working her new job, Minni shockingly discovers that her boss is secretly running this criminal group that steals water from the poor to sell it to the rich.
What is the water mafia?