Plot details
What is Owatonna?
Who is Emmett?
What is a carbuncle?
The years (span) covered in the novel
What is 1920-1940?
John makes Peter do this to the kittens
What is drown them?
The family Peter lives with at the end of the novel.
Who are the Klugs?
Uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation
What is a quandary?
Mr. and Mrs. Cory take Peter to Clinton falls to do this
What is fishing?
This person sends Peter a letter while he is at the State School, wanting to adopt him
Who is his grandmother?
John surprisingly allows Peter to attend this at the Hanson's house
What is 4-H meeting?
The guardian who hits Peter's knee with a hammer
Who is Mrs. Monson?
Act sneaky, petty and untrustworthy
What is a trifle?
Dale and Billy and Peter ride the train to this city
We would probably diagnose Peter with this today.
What is PTSD?
John buys this for Peter, but it is in bad shape
What is a bicycle?
Peter's first foster parents
Who are John and Emma Schauls?
Strong or aggressive; masculine pride
What is machismo?
Where the boys have to stay once they were caught running away
What is jail?
The student who challenges Peter to a fight and loses at the end of the novel.
Who is Bud Lange?
Where the Schaulses move to
What is Caledonia?
The teacher who seems to care the most for Peter at the Caledonia High School
Who is Mr. Zuelke
To scold or criticize
What is berate?
After John hits Peter with a weapon and knocks him out, Peter sleeps here.
What is the ditch?