Vocabulary
Characterized by extreme heat or humidity
What is stifling?
The main character of the story.
Who is Stanley Yelnats?
The people or animals who are important to the story.
What are characters?
The detention facility where Stanley must dig a whole every day for 18 months.
What is Camp Green Lake?
What is a gold tube?
Living by preying on other animals
What is predatory?
The rude and harsh counselor who Stanley first meets at camp.
Who is Mr. Sir?
The time, place, and environment in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
The deadly animal that lives at Camp Green Lake that will kill you instantly.
What are yellow-spotted lizards?
Stanley's nickname at Camp Green Lake.
What is Caveman?
A person considered as coming from some ancestor or race
What is descendant?
The one-legged gypsy who cursed Stanley's family for all of eternity
Who is Madame Zeroni?
The important events or actions that occur during the story.
What is plot?
What Stanley's father does for a living.
What is an inventor?
The boy at camp who the other's look to as their leader.
Who is X-Ray?
Frown with displeasure
What is scowl?
The nice counselor who uses the boys' real names instead of their nicknames.
The main issue, struggle, or problem the main characters are up against.
What is conflict?
The reason why Stanley's family thinks they are cursed.
What is his great-great grandfather?
The reason why Stanley was bullied at school.
What is being overweight?
Persistent determination
What is perseverance?
Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Who is Elya Yelnats?
The way the characters solve the problem.
What is resolution?
A word or phrase that can be spelled the same way forwards and backwards.
What is a palindrome?
The outlaw who kisses the men she kills.
Who is Kate Barlow?