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Why is X-Ray's nickname funny or ironic?
He actually has very poor eyesight.
What is the MOST important rule at Camp Green Lake?
Don't upset the warden!
How does the new camper, Twitch, get his nickname? What crime does Twitch commit that gets him sentenced to Camp Green Lake?
He is fidgety and can't best still. He was arrested for stealing a car.
Besides the fact that it was against the law for Kate and Sam to be together, why was Trout Walker especially mad that Katherine Barlow loved Sam?
Katherine Barlow had rejected Trout and wasn't interested in him or his family's money. He wasn't used to not getting his way.
Why does the Warden have the campers dig holes each day?
She is trying to find Kate Barlow's buried loot.
Where did Stanley's father probably get the idea to name his invention Sploosh?
Driving back from camp, Zero and Stanley smelled a sample of it. They thought it smelled like peaches. The jars of Sploosh in the boat were filled with 100-year-old peach preserves.
Why did Madam Zeroni ask Elya Yelnats to carry her up the mountain instead of trying to climb on her own.
She was fairly old and had only one foot.
What does Madame Zeroni tell Elya Yelnats to do to win Myra Menke over?
She tells him to grow the runt pig by bringing him up the mountain and offering the grown pig with her father.
What was Kate Barlow's role in the town of Green Lake? What was Sam's?
Kate Barlow was the town's local school teacher. Sam sold onions in the town.
Mr. Sir says several times in the book, "You're not in the Girl Scouts anymore." Why is this ironic or funny by the end of the story?
The Warden had to sell the land, and Camp Green Lake was going to become a Girl Scout camp in a few years
What does Katherine Barlow do FIRST after the townspeople of Green Lake burn the schoolhouse and murder Sam and Mary Lou? This marks the start of her life as an outlaw.
She goes back to the sheriff's office and shoots him dead. She then puts on lipstick and kisses him (which he'd asked her to do before Sam was killed).
1. What did Stanley and Zero find in the hole? 2. How did it get there? 3. Why was it still in the ground after over 100 years?
1. They found a briefcase with "Stanley Yelnats" stamped on it. 2. Kate Barlow had stolen it from Stanley's grandfather and buried it in the desert. 3. No one in Trout Walker's family had found it until that moment.
How was it learned that Stanley was innocent of stealing Clyde Livingston's sneakers?
The school bully (Derrick Dunne) admitted he had thrown Stanley's notebook into a toilet at about the same time the shoe theft occurred. Witnesses had seen Stanley exiting the bathroom at school.