Characters
This is the name of the main character.
Who is Red?
This is what Bongo does to annoy children.
What is untying shoelaces and stealing treats?
This is how owls name themselves.
What are “no-nonsense names?”
This is the tree species that our main character categorizes under.
What is a Northern Red Oak?
This is the author of the book.
Who is Katherine Applegate?
This is the best friend of the main character; a pessimistic bird.
Who is Bongo?
This is what Samar and her family are struggling with.
What is finding acceptance? Or What is making friends?
Bongo got her name for this reason.
What is enjoying the sound of bongo drums being played?
These are some details listed about Red in chapter 2.
What is reddish-gray bark, leathery leaves with pointy lobes; stubborn, searching roots, and red?
This is THE RULE.
What is “DON’T TALK TO PEOPLE?”
This is the 10 year-old Muslim girl we were introduced to in chapter 8.
Who is Samar?
This is the phrase that was carved into the trunk of Red in chapter 15.
What is “LEAVE?”
This is how opossums get their names.
What is something they are afraid of?
This is how most trees get their names (except for the one in California).
What is the name of the tree they were planted as?
This is how old Red is.
What is 216 years old?
This is the name of Samar’s male neighbor.
Who is Stephen?
This is the community’s response to the phrase that was carved into Red in an earlier chapter.
What is being supportive of Samar’s family?
Red metaphorically compared himself to this in chapter 10.
What is an apartment complex?
These are the blights (diseases) that afflicted Red in his past (chapter 10). [NAME AT LEAST 1]
What are Leaf Blister, sooty mold, oak wilt, and leaf scorch?
Name at least one of the 4 traits that Bongo mentions to Red as “what counts” in chapter 11.
What are smarts, wiles, trickery, and cunning?
This is the thing Samar wishes for in chapter 19.
What is a friend?
This is the thing that upset Red a year ago (chapter 15).
What is chocolate spaghetti?
This is the reason for raccoon mothers not using traditional names.
What is being forgetful?
This is the month in which Samar and her family moved into Red’s area.
What is January?
This is the general region for the setting of the book. (HINT: Do you know where NORTHERN Red Oaks are naturally from?) [DAILY DOUBLE)
What is somewhere in the eastern United States?