Vocabulary
There's a scarcity of water at Camp Green Lake. What does the word in italics mean?
A short supply of
What is the very first thing Stanley ever finds in a hole?
A fossil
What is God's Thumb?
A mountain
Which animals are the most dangerous at Camp Green Lake?
Yellow Spotted Lizards
Who endorses Stanley's father's new product?
Clyde Livingston
What was Kate Barlow's occupation? What does the word in italics mean?
Why was the gold tube deemed to be interesting, but not the fossil?
The gold tube belonged to Kate Barlow. It had her initials on it.
How did Stanley find water on God's Thumb?
He dug a hole where he found mud, because mud means that there must be water.
Who does Stanley give the tube to in chapter 13?
X-Ray
Why didn't Zero or Stanley get bitten by a lizard at the end of the book?
They had eaten the onions, and the lizards don't like onions.
Zero is a descendant of Madame Zeroni. What does the word in italics mean?
A family line related to a single ancestor
Which boy at Camp Green Lake enjoyed stealing?
Magnet
Onions
Why does Mr. Sir punish Stanley, and what is his punishment?
What is Stanley's Fathers first successful invention? What does it do?
Spoolsh, a peach scented freshener for shoes.
Stanley felt extremely feeble after carrying Zero up the mountain with very little food or water. What does the word in italics mean?
Weak
What did Stanley do when he decided he had to go look for Zero?
He stole the water truck, and then crashed it into a hole.
How did the onions end up on God's thumb?
It was Sam's secret patch.
Why did Kate Barlow turn to a life of crime?
The love of her life, Sam, was murdered.
What happens to Camp Green Lake?
It turns into a Girl Scout Camp
Zero is illiterate, so Stanley decides to help him. How does Stanley help Zero, and what does the word in italics mean?
Stanley teaches Zero how to read, and Illiterate means unable to read.
When Stanley first meets the warden, why is he surpirsed?
He is surprised that the warden is a woman
How is God's thumb a turning point for Stanley's luck?
After Stanley carries Zero up the mountain, he breaks his families curse.
Zero has spent much of his life homeless, and without his mother. He is also unable to read or write.
As Stanley and Zero are leaving camp, something miraculous happens, what is that event?
It rains