A seventeen-year-old who found a new species of butterfly.
Who is John Rodgers?
100
A biology teacher at Kiowa High School.
Who is Anne Merrill
100
Cause there's no place like home. No place like family. No place like childhood friends.
Who is the manager of the Lost Traveler hotel?
100
The storeroom was like a scientific Chinese restaurant of mixed and exotic smells.
What is a simile?
100
You should not have been on company land.
Who is Mary Carson?
200
A family member who holds a high school football record.
Who is Henry Rodgers?
200
An entomologist at the University of California at Berkeley.
Who is Dr. Hammond Eggleson?
200
The secret to always winning is not to let yourself lose.
Who is Henry Rodgers?
200
My father had been the volcano in the family...
What is a metaphor?
200
What good is it?
Who is David Mitchell?
300
A family member who was a high school cheerleader and came to visit in Kiowa.
Who is Katie Rodgers?
300
A discus thrower on the Kiowa track and field team. The closest thing to a friend John has.
Who is Clark Rhinegold (Rhino)?
300
I'm probably the only member of the family who believes in God at all, and I wouldn't exactly hold myself up as a model of faith.
Who is John Rodgers?
300
Latticed with leaves
What is alliteration?
300
He is interested in the trees, not the butterfly.
Who is Mr. McKeon?
400
A family member who painted a winter scene that hangs in the Rodgers' house.
Who is John's mother, Meg Rodgers?
400
A neighbor and classmate who gave John a Kleenex after he was punched in the nose.
Who is Mary Menendez?
400
You make compromises. You do the best you can. He's done the best he could.
Who is John's mother, Meg Rodgers?
400
Yet, even with death...crouching in the corner...grinning at me from the window ledge...sliding down the oak banister.
What is personification?
400
The men and women out there are an endangered species, just as much as that butterfly.
Who is Mayor Stokes?
500
Owns a business that repairs cars.
Who is Glenn Rodgers?
500
Assistant principal who played football with John's father.
Who is Mr. Nichols?
500
I don't want to try to sound profound or anything, but sometimes people get chosen at some point in their lives to do something larger than themselves.
Who is Dr. Eggleson?
500
Soon I heard the gurgle of the creek and steady wash-wash of the falls.
What is onomatopoeia
500
Where do you get off coming here, to an honest, hard-working town, and telling us what we have to do?