Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Bybanks Memories
Sal's New Home
Life After Idaho
100
garbage or junk
rubbish
100
large
massive
100
Describe Sal's home in Bybanks.
There is a swimming hole, animals, farm, fields.
100
Name two of Sal's friends.
Phoebe, Ben, Mary Lou
100
How did Gram die?
She had a stroke.
200
craziness
lunacy
200
searched
rummaged
200
What did Gramps teach Sal to do?
drive
200
What caused Sal's classmates to be upset with each other?
Mr. Birkway read their journals aloud.
200
How did Sugar die?
Bus accident
300
evaporating
vaporizing
300
respected; honorable
dignified
300
How did Sal break her leg?
She fell out of a tree.
300
Why did Sal and her father move to Euclid, OH?
Everything in Bybanks reminded John of Sugar. He needed to get away.
300
How did Margaret know Chanhassen?
They sat together on the bus.
400
expressing hurtful remarks
sarcastic
400
crabby; cranky
cantankerous
400
What did Sal feel was her fault?
Tulip's death
400
What did Phoebe think Mrs. Cadaver did to her husband?
murdered him and buried him in her backyard
400
What did Gramps name his beagle?
Huzza Huzza
500
chaos
pandemonium
500
variety of different things
miscellaneous
500
Explain the blackberry kiss.
Sugar ate some blackberries, then kissed a maple tree. Sal thought she could see a small stain--like from a blackberry kiss.
500
How are Mrs. Partridge, Mrs. Cadaver, and Mr. Birkway related?
Mrs. Partridge is their mother. Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway are twins.
500
When did Sal find out all the information about her mom?
Before the trip to Idaho; the day Mrs. Winterbottom came home
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