Family
The celebration for which Melinda's dad cooked "bits of grey, green, and yellow roll in the burping white paste".(Page 61)
What is Thanksgiving?
She convinced Melinda to change the look of her room.
Who is Rachel?
A class where Melinda expresses herself freely without feeling judged.
What is art class?
"I open up a paper clip, and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist".(Page 87)
What is depression?
"The radio sings louder".(Page 118)
What is personification?
Melinda got a sketchpad with ____ as a Christmas present from her parents.
What are charcoal pencils?
He says, "This is where you can find your soul, if you dare". (Page 10)
Who is Mr. Freeman?
The school staff member who is called when "they figure I am more of a headcase than a criminal"(Page 113)
Who is the Guidance Counsellor?
“It wasn’t my fault. He hurt me. It wasn’t my fault. And I’m not going to let it kill me. I can grow.”(Page 198)
What is courage?
"We are the wombats, woozy, wicked wombats! Worried, withdrawn, weepy, weird wombats." (Page 69)
What is alliteration?
Mr. Sordino's work is to _____
What is selling insurance?
She tells Melinda, "You are just so weird sometimes". (Page 106)
Who is Heather?
Ms. Connors offers a deal to Melinda in the ___ class.
What is gym?
"He says a million things without saying a word".(Page 57)
What is communication?
"Waiting for a prince to come a princessify her with a smooch".(Page 81)
What is an allusion?
The festival that Mrs. Sordino doesn't like.
What is Easter?
She "can do anything that involves a ball and a whistle".(Page 19)
Who is Nicole?
Staff member who "got new glasses, purple-rimmed, bifocals that hang from a beaded chain" (Page 172)
Who is Hairwoman?
"There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs".(Page 51)
What is trauma?
"Little rabbit heart leaps out of my chest and scampers across the paper leaving bloody footprints on my roots".(Page 160)
What is imagery?
Melinda's "day in pyjamas, eating ice-cream from the carton, painting my toe-nails, and enjoying TrashTV."(Page 162)
What is mental-health day?
Melinda calls him "Basketball Pole".(Page 76)
Who is Brendan Keller?
Melinda envisions herself to be a ____ when she finds Andy as her In-School Suspension companion.
What is BunnyRabbit?
"Sometimes I think High school is one long hazing activity; if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult".(Page 191)
What is the coming of age?
"I have never heard more eloquent silence".(Page 57)
What is an oxymoron?