Characters
Plot
Theme
Vocabulary
Fun Little Details
100
These characters were best friends.
Who are Opal and Winn-Dixie?
100

The place where Winn-Dixie is discovered.

What is a grocery store?

100

Winn-Dixie makes most people feel this.

What is joy or happiness?

100

a child that has no mother or father.  Opal said that Winn-Dixie was an ______________ like her.

What is an orphan?

100
Winn-Dixie was terrified of these.
What are thunderstorms?
200
This character was an ex-criminal who gave Opal a job.
Who is Otis?
200
The feeling Opal felt when she first moved.
What is lonely?
200
Gloria Dump helped Opal see people with her heart and taught her this important lesson.
What is accepting people for who they are in the present or not judging others for past mistakes?
200

the section of a grocery store where the fruits and vegetables are kept.  Winn-Dixie was in the _________________ section of the Winn-Dixie grocery store.

What is the produce section?

200
The name of the town where Opal lived.
What is Naomi, Florida?
300
This character established a library and loved to tell stories.
Who is Miss Franny?
300
Miss Franny had mistaken Winn-Dixie for this animal when she first met him.
What is a bear?
300
Winn-Dixie helps the preacher come "out of his shell" and teaches him the importance of this.
What is family or love?
300

Not being made to follow a certain rule.  Opal was an ________________ to the rule that only adults could like in the trailer park.

What is an exception?

300
The name children gave Gloria Dump.
What is a "witch"?
400
The character who Opal grew to like at the end of the story.
Who is Amanda?
400

Winn-Dixie helped Opal to make these.

What are friends/friendships?

400

Since Opal is an only child who doesn't have a mother and moves a lot with her father, she lacks a sense of this.

What is community or belonging?

400

Feeling sad.  The Littmus Lozenges made the preacher feel _________________.

What is melancholy?

400
The name of the store where Opal worked.
What is Gertrude's Pet Store?
500
The character who Opal compared to "a turtle in a shell, not ever sticking his head out into the world."
Who is her father, the preacher?
500
The point of view from whom the story is told.
Who is India Opal?
500

Opal never gets to meet her mom, but she learns this at the end of the story.

What is to accept how things are/appreciate what you do have?

500

A fear that you can not be talked out of.  Winn-Dixie had _____________________ of thunderstorms.

What is a pathological fear?

500

The book Opal read to Gloria Dump.

What is "David Copperfield"?

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