Characters
Which ILLC adult employee was formerly homeless?
Who is Jimmie Kendrick?
Who is the author of the novel?
Who is Susan Nussbaum?
What are two contradicting main themes of the book?
What is power v. powerlessness?
What does ILLC stand for?
What is the Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center?
Which ILLC “kid character” was the only one that owned a manual wheelchair?
Who is Mia Oviedo?
When was the novel written?
When is 2013?
What perspective is the story told? Why is that?
What is 1st of each person involved within the ILLC and Nussbaum with the idea of voice and who is able to have one?
What does the ILLC restrict from a certain character that she is in definite need of?
Who is Mia and what is an electric wheelchair?
What three adult characters are able-bodied?
Who are Michelle, Ricky, and Jimmie?
What is the setting of the novel?
Where is Chicago, Illinois?
Who does Nussbaum portray as the villain through stylistic choices?
Who is the ILLC and most of their workers?
What was the reason protests arose because of the ILLC?
What is the endangerment and poor treatment of the children/residents of the ILLC?
Which character went to juvie?
Who is Yessenia Lopez?
What is the institution that these characters are surrounded by called?
What is the ILLC?
What is the type of abuse that Nussbaum doesn’t outrightly state but is seen through telling?
What is institutional abuse?
What is something good that came out of the bad from the ILLC?
Who is Mia and Teddy? Or What are the connections and shared experiences between kids?
Which two characters are presumed/said to be white?
Who is Michelle and Teddy?
What year and award did this novel obtain?
What is the 2012 Bellwether Award Winner?
What does the portrayal of voice impact to the characters?
What is portrays who has power and who does not?
What does the ILLC believe they are doing to the kids when they are ‘torturing them’?
What is “bettering them out of their misery?