Vocabulary
Wrath
What is extreme anger
Tommy's pet.
Who is Goldman?
This is the name of the book Petra finds on the train tracks in Chapter 5.
What is The Invisible Man?
The family who first lived in the Robie House.
The disappearance of the valuable jade fish from the Robie House and the destruction of the house.
What is the central mystery of the book?
Gesticulating
What is moving your arms and hands as you talk.
This character tells Petra in Chapter 17 that she found a notebook under a floorboard and is Petra's neighbor.
Who is Mrs. Sharpe?
"A trifle" and "a filter" (hint: Calder made these phrased out of other letters)
What are the two phrases Calder created using the letters LIFE and ART?
Publicizing their opinion that the house is a work of art that deserves to be preserved, to show that it would be like murder to take the house apart they do this.
What is the main goal of the sixth-graders' demonstration where they cut apart art in Chapter 18?
The words that the house may have said to Henry Dare as/before he fell off the roof.
What is "stay and play" or "stay away?"
Despicable
What is Extremely unlikable or hateful.
The great-grandson of a stonemason who worked on the Robie House. This character also fell off the roof of the house at the beginning of the book.
Who is Henry Dare?
Tommy shows Calder this find in Chapter 6.
What is the stone dragon fish?
Feeling like a fish in a net, yet also feeling embraced and loved like the Robie House is meant to be a home.
What strange, yet comforting, feelings does Tommy experience while trapped in the Robie House in Chapter 30?
Tommy lies about where he found the jade fish because he has difficulty with this, which he corrects later in the story, this shows how he feels about his friends.
What is trusting Petra and Calder?
Partitioning
What is dividing into separate sections or areas.
The man in heavy black glasses, who Tommy sees looking up at him from outside his window in Chapter 27 and who broke into Tommy's house and stole the dragon-fish.
Who is Black Glasses?
The "huge" or significant pattern of numbers (3, 5, 21) that Calder's mom tells him about.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence or the pattern 3, 5, and 21?
Feeling like you are being watched, like tragic things have happened and the house has ghosts.
What is the feeling Petra has when she first enters the Robie House?
The name of the group of three friends—Calder, Petra, and Tommy—working together to save the Robie House.
What is The Wright 3?
Ominous
What is Threatening, giving a bad feeling
The architect who designed the Robie House but never lived there.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
The letters that make up the Wright 3 Sandwich Code.
What is the Pentominoes?
The university's decision to restore the Robie House, which creates a caretaker's position for Tommy's family.
What event in Chapter 32 saves the Robie House and solves Tommy's family's housing problem?
The object that Frank Lloyd Wright considered his talisman.
What is the jade stone dragon-fish carving?