Characters
This girl is the main character of the story.
Who is India Opal Buloni?
This happened when Opal was ten, leaving her alone with her father.
What is Opal's mom leaving?
Winn-Dixie and his big smile, help to bring out this emotion in many people.
What is happiness?
What is pathological?
This grocery store is where Opal found a dog running around knocking over food and causing the employee's to fall over.
What is Winn-Dixie?
This dog is named after the grocery store he was found in.
Who is Winn-Dixie?
During this weather event, Opal and her dad discover Winn-Dixie's biggest fear.
What is a thunderstorm?
Gloria Dump's bottle tree helps Opal to realize that everyone, even adults mess up and that you shouldn't do this.
What is judge others for their past mistakes or first impressions?
This name that Opal gives her dad is a person who speaks to people at a church.
What is the preacher?
This is the place where Opal's dad is the preacher.
What is the Open Arms Baptist Church?
This is the nickname Opal gives to brothers Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry.
What is the Bald-Headed Babies?
This happened to Amanda Wilkinson's brother last year and is the reason she always looks so "pinch-faced."
What is he drowned?
With the help of Winn-Dixie, Opal learns this lesson, that allows her to make friends and feel less alone.
What is everyone can feel alone sometimes?
Gloria Dump describes the Dewberry boys as being this word. Because they judge Gloria and Opal before getting to really know them.
What is ignorant?
This is where Opal spends most of her time during the summer.
Where is the Herman W. Block memorial library?
This character once saw a bear come into her library.
Who is Miss Franny Block?
Opal asks for this gift from her father for her 10th birthday.
What is a list of 10 things about her mother?
After Opal and her Dad get into a big argument, they both realize that they have each other and their __________ is the most important thing.
What is family?
When tasting the Litmus Lozenge, which includes the secret ingredient of sorrow, the preacher describes the candy tasting like this word.
What is melancholy?
This is the place Winn-Dixie was found after running away in the storm.
Where is under Gloria Dump's bed?
This character runs the trailer park that Opal and her dad live in.
Who is Mr. Alfred?
When Miss Franny Block's great-great grandfather Litmus W. Block came back from war, he created this candy to help him deal with all of the bad things that happened to him.
What is a Litmus Lozenge?
The Dewberry boys and Opal learn not to be this and take time to get to know people before they make judgements or be mean.
What is ignorant?
This word that Opal uses to describe Winn-Dixie means that someone is not doing as well as you are and may need help.
What is less-fortunate?
This is the city Opal and her dad lived in before moving to Naomi.
What is Watley, Florida?