Chapters 1 &2
A 6-year old boy who dropped a stone slab on his foot.
Who is Sampson?
Goerge's older brother who skips school often.
Who is Garland?
The 7th grade play Rameck got the lead role in.
What is The Wiz?
The place where Reggie teaches Sampson, Andre, Crusher, and Razor karate.
What is a cemetery?
What kind of dogs did Jack have?
German Shepards
Sampson's older brother, who was beat with a broom by his mother after the park incident.
Who is Andre?
The writer Miss Johnson talks to the kids about every Tuesday.
Who is Shakespeare?
The amount of money Rameck needs for a professional portfolio for his acting career.
What is $150?
The thing Reggie tells the boys to be in order to survive the streets.
What is the ocean?
Describe Sampson's home life. What type of relationships does he have with them?
His mom is very strict but cares for him and supports him.
His father is not around.
Andre is his older brother who Sampson looked up to until he kept getting into trouble.
The thing Rameck was throwing into the ceiling when he got bored in class.
What is a pencil?
The building right across the street from where Sampson lives.
What is the Dayton Street Projects?
The reason George got out of school early.
What is a dentist appointment?
The high school Sampson's mom wants him to go to.
What is University High School?
Who gave Rameck the money for his portfolios? What happened to that money?
His grandmother did- he gave it to his mom so she could turn the power back on but she did not.
The boy who was bullying Rameck.
Who is Meatball?
The game Sampson, Noody, and Will were playing outside.
What is Spongball?
So that his little sister could have fresh food and cold milk.
What is the reason Rameck gave his mother the money?
The person who stole a carpet cleaner.
Who is Eddie?
What is the name of the drug dealer that beat someone up in front of Sampson and his friends while they were playing Spongeball?
Who is The Bomb?
The boy who helped get Sampson home after the incident at the park.
Who is Leslie?
The man who held the dogs back as Jack forced Noody and Sampson to face them.
Who is Luis?
A person who can beat both King Kong and Godzilla.
What is a dentist?
This character sat beside Sampson in math class but was driving a stolen car and crashed it onto a pole right outside of Sampson's house.
Who is Razor- Razor Sizemore- Lucille's Boy
Describe Rameck's family members and his relationships with them.
He can't trust his mom but still loves her. She is an addict.
His mom worked a lot to put him in private school for a little bit.
His grandma loves and supports him. He is very close to her.