Chapter 1-2
Chapter 3-4
Chapter 5-6
Chapter 7-8
Chapter 9-10
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How old is Kenny and what grade is he in?
Kenny is 10 years old and he is in 4th grade
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What are the new kids' names and their relationship with Kenny?
Their names are Rufus and Cody and Rufus becomes Kenny's first friend.
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Byron plays with matches. What is the influence on Kenny?
Kenny thinks that the movie Byron makes is cool and he would do it if there was not a big punishment, but he wouldn't do if he knew he got burned.
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What is Kenny's favorite song?
Kenny's favorite song is "Yakety Yak''
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What were the toilets like in Michigan?What did Kenny do instead?
Instead of a white stool with a seat there was a seat on a piece of wood with a great big, open, black hole underneath with the sounds of flies coming out of it. He unrolled a bunch of toilet paper and went to the woods outside.(139)
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Kenny has a lazy eye. What is Byron's advice?
Byron tells Kenny to look sideways so it seems as if he does not have a lazy eye.
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Why does Kenny like Rufus better than LJ Jones?
Kenny likes Rufus more because he doesn't steal his little plastic dinosaurs.
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How does Kenny get involved with Byron playing with flames?
When Byron locks the bathroom door, Kenny gets curious and peeks through the key hole and spies on Byron playing with matches.
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What are the 2 improvements to the Brown Bomber that the father creates more build-up toward? What is Kenny's emotion to these new improvements?
The 2 improvements are the pine tree and the Ultra-Glide and he's really excited about the new improvements.
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Kenny likes being talked to like a grown up.What is his trick to make his dad talk about something he is reluctant to at first?Does it work?
Kenny tried to look really intelligent and it worked.
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What are the reasons that Kenny gets bullied for and how does Byron help with this bullying problem? Why doesn't he want Byron to graduate?
Kenny's two problems are that he has a lazy eye and he is extremely smart. Byron helps because he is pretty much the ''god'' of the school. On page 27,Kenny says that he would be nervous about what was going to happen if Byron ever got out of sixth grade before he caught up with him because even though he got teased and beat up a lot, he knew it would happen a lot more if it hadn't been for Byron.
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What are two hints about the wealth of Cody and Rufus that Kenny observes?
Kenny observes that they are poor because they don't bring lunches and they share ragged clothing.
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How does Kenny deal with the problem of Byron signing food out that their parents don't know about?
Kenny decides that he should rat Byron out but Byron has already thought about that and if Kenny does tells, he will also get in trouble because he ate some cookies too.
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What is Kenny's reaction to Byron getting a conk?
Kenny sees it as an opportunity to tease Byron. "I loved times like this when Byron was about to really get it and couldn't pay me back for teasing him."(89)
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What does Kenny know about Byron before the big trip when Byron is talking with Buphead? How does it turn out and what does Kenny do?
Kenny knows that Byron is giving them the silent treatment but he eventually talks and Kenny teases Byron and he bugs Byron more than he bugs Kenny.
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What is Kenny's reaction to Byron's lips getting stuck to the rear side mirror?
Kenny reaction is that he thinks that he can do a lot of things to him but instead he decides to help out.For example on page 13, it says "I nearly broke my neck trying to get into the house to rescue Byron.
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What does Momma make them wear on a cold winter day and why?
Momma makes them wear many layers of clothing because she doesn't want them to freeze to death. She was born in Alabama so she didn't really know anything about the cold. "Thought cold weather could kill you in a flash."(47)
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What does Kenny think about Byron at times when he is not so friendly?For example, if a genie came.
If a genie came and gave Kenny three wishes, he wouldn't mind using all three to wish some real bad stuff on him, stuff that would make Byron hurt so much that he'd have to think every day about how mean he is.
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What is Kenny's dad's influence on him while presenting the new improvements to the car?
His dad cuts up and Kenny wants to do it too. Kenny wants to be as good as his dad.
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What was Kenny's reaction to the mountains and the air?What is he scared of in the woods with Byron?
He thinks that the mountains were the scariest things he'd ever seen and the air felt like something bad was going to happen.(145) When Byron tells Kenny about the rednecks they both make a break for the Brown Bomber.
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How is Kenny a good brother and what is the impression he leaves on us?
Kenny is a good brother because even though Byron bullies him he still cares and helps him leaving him with the impression that he is kind and caring.
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Why does Rufus get mad at Kenny and how does this problem get resolved?(who does it?)
Rufus gets mad at Kenny because on the bus, Kenny laughs when Larry Dunn makes fun of Rufus and Cody. Kenny's mom gets involved and has a chat with Rufus about their friendship.
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What is Kenny's reaction when he sees the grave that Byron made for the mourning dove that he had just killed?
Kenny feels sad yet confused when Byron holds a funeral for the bird because he doesn't understand what is going on with him. He is also offended because he has a conscience toward a bird but not kids such as Kenny.
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What is Kenny's reaction on Byron going to Birmingham? What are three reasons why?
Kenny was shocked because he never thought that Byron would be sent to Alabama. The first reason was that Alabama was about two million miles from Flint.(119) The second reason was that Momma and Dad were always threatening to do stuff to Byron that everybody knew they wouldn't do.(119-120) The biggest reason Byron and Joey and me thought they'd never send him to Alabama was because we had heard so many horrible stories about how strict Grandma Sands was.(120)
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What are the 3 topics Kenny and Daniel talk about?
They talk about Byron going to Alabama, how it is like being a grown up, and if he can play "Yakety Yak''.
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