Vocabulary Words
To look at someone angrily and without moving your eyes.
What is glare?
This character left because she was having a baby.
Who is Mrs. Hall?
This is the only thing that makes Ally feel like she's not a waste of space.
What is her sketchbook of impossible things?
"Thirty-six and you throw in the Mercury dime for my little sister."
Who is Travis?
Gratitude
The feeling or quality of being thankful
A person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently.
What is immigrant?
This character had a birthday party at a butterfly garden.
Who is Shay?
The reason Mrs. Muldoon took away Keisha's flowers.
She knocked one bud off of them.
"I'm glad you're not invisible, Ally. Because this class wouldn't be the same without you."
Who is Mr. Daniels?
Immortal
Living or lasting forever
A very sudden attack of an illness, especially one that affects the heart or brain.
What is seizure?
This character drives a pickle-green old car.
Who is Travis?
The word Flint on Albert's shirt represents this.
What is a character in Star Trek?
"Look, it's the Island of Misfit Toys."
Who is Shay?
Nickel
A coin worth five cents
Making you feel ashamed or stupid.
What is humiliating?
Mr. Daniels calls his students this.
What is Fantasticos?
How does Ally avoid writing in class?
She put her arm in a sling and said that her cat tripped her on the stairs.
"I was not implying it was you who is not kind to me. But there are others who are not kind."
Who is Albert?
To refuse to be controlled or ruled
Useful and intended to help or improve something.
What is constructive?
Three reasons why Albert is different from the other boys in school.
He likes science facts, he is bullied, and his family is poor so he doesn't have a lot of clothes or shoes.
Alone is being by yourself and can be good or bad. But being lonely is never a choice, and you can be lonely even in a room full of people.
"You won an award. Who in the world runs from an award? I'd think you'd be happy."
Who is Keisha?
Investigation
The act of examining a crime, problem, etc. to discover the truth