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This the reason that the family moved to Battle Mountain.
What is there was more gold to mine and try the prospector?
Rex chased Rose Mary with the family car for this reason.
What is they disagreed on how long she had been pregnant with Maureen?
Jeannette's reaction to fire after being burned by it.
What is she became fascinated by fire?
This is what Rex gave the kids for Christmas in Battle Mountain when they had no money.
What is stars/planet?
__________ was thrown out of the car after not being on board with the "life is an adventure" mindset.
Who is Quixote the cat?
This idea of Rex's would help the family separate gold from rocks to strike it rich.
What is The Prospector?
This character took Jeannette to their house to show Jeannette their drunk father and said Rex was the same way.
Who is Billy Deel?
This character cried after putting on glasses for the first time.
Who is Lori?
This character yelled at the children for eating margarine because they were going to use it to make bread.
Who is Rose Mary?
This character fights to protect Jeannette in Welch when Dinitia and her gang bully Jeannette.
Who is Brian?
This was the town where Jeannette and Brian were put in classes for students who had limited English ability.
What is Welch, West Virginia?
This character was a bully in Welch who later became Jeannette´s friend.
Who is Dinitia?
This character "got into a fight with the mountain" and had Jeannette stitch them up.
Who is Rex?
Jeannette and Lori call this character a "pervert" and attacked him/her to protect Brian.
Who is Erma?
This character kept having recurring nightmares of scary men in Halloween masks in Phoenix and also a rat.
Who is Maureen?
This character fights with Jeannette and Brian in Welch, which causes them to catapult rocks on this person.
Who is Ernie Goad?
This character forced Rose Mary to get her teaching license in case her art career failed.
Who is Grandma Smith?
Rex did this to try and teach his children about wild animals.
What is he went into the cheetah enclosure and allowed Jeannette to pet it?
This tree could be said to symbolize the hardship Jeannette has faced in her life.
What is the Joshua Tree?
This house had no electricity or plumbing, was up on a steep hill, and was half-painted yellow.
What is 93 Little Hobart Street?
This was the teacher in Battle Mountain who later was fired for bringing a loaded rifle to school.
Who is Miss Page?
This is the mother´s reason for not taking a lot of time to cook and instead to spend hours painting.
What is art will last but food is prepared and the eaten and gone?
This is what Jeanette expressed interest in as a future profession while living in Welch.
What is veterinarian or geologist?
This was something that Jeannette saw in the hospital administrator´s home that she later dreamed of during cold winter nights.
What is a thermostat?
What is Phoenix?