This high school senior is looking to get a basketball scholarship to college.
Who is Jason?
100
This character comforts herself by thinking of faiiry tales like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rapunzel.
Who is Carmen?
100
This character comforted herself after Tobias' funeral by breaking dishes and crying.
Who is Keesha?
100
This character cannot find the words to describe th joy of holding her first born son.
Who is Stephie's mom?
100
For most of the book the kids speak in this poetic form in which six words are repeated in a particular order as teh end words of each line in six line stanzas,
What is a sestina?
200
Stephie, the "carefree" teenage girl compares being pregnant to tihs.
What is a no win coin toss?
200
This character is sad he can't take his dog when he does home for food and clothes/
Who is Harris?
200
This character feels guilty for going to college when the other kids have it so rough.
Who is Jason?
200
This character asks God for strength to carry all the burdens people try to put on her.
Who is Carmen's Grandmama (Roberta)?
200
This poetic form consists of 14 lines with a set rhyme pattern.
What is a sonnet?
300
This character shivered in a backyard all night.
Who is Dontay?
300
This character worries s he will "go off the deep end" like her dad did.
Who is Katie?
300
This character used to like to hide and make his sibling find him.
What was Tobias?
300
This upstanding citizen told Harris he was too young to choose to be gay.
Who is Assistant Principal Hyde?
300
This 10-line poem is a simpler form of a sestina.
What is a tritina?
400
This one word changed Harris' life.
What is "him"?
400
This character met Keesha at a city-wide track meet in 7th grade.
Who is Stephie?
400
Harris played this object that he found in the attic like a drum.
What is a turtle shell?
400
The adults in the book always speak in this poeticform.
What is a sonnet?
500
Caarmen didn't know this was under the back seat of her Grandmama's car.
What is a half-smoked blunt?
500
This character has gorgeous red hair.
Who is Harris?
500
The amount of time DOntay has to wait for his dad to get out of prison and that Carmen has been clean and sober at the end of the novella.
What is three months?
500
Told 12-year-old Joe he could stay "as long as you need to" when he showed up at her door.
What is Aunt Annnie?
500
By the end of the novella, the teens have matured and nnow speak in this poetic form.