BILLIE JO
It's the color of Billie Jo's hair
What is red?
Ma accidentally pours this liquid on a hot stove
What is kerosene?
It's the disease Pa has to have "cut out"
What is skin cancer?
He's the local rancher Billie Jo often sees "riding his fences"
Who is Joe De La Flor?
Billie Jo has "a fondness for apples/and a hunger for playing fierce" this
What is piano?
It's Billie Jo's rank in her 8th grade class on the state tests
What is first?
Ma suggests Pa try digging one of these to combat the drought
What is a pond?
Neither Billie Jo nor her pa do this much, but Billie Jo wishes they would more often after the accident
What is talk?
She's Billie Jo's schoolteacher
Who is Miss Freeland?
"I told the reverend/my brother's name was" this
What is Franklin?
It's Billie Jo's last name
What is Kelby?
Ma taught Billie Jo to play this instrument
What is piano?
She's Pa's night school teacher he ends up dating
Who is Louise?
He's the local physician
Who is Doc Rice?
"Mad Dog...comes past once a week/on his way from Amarillo,/where he works for" this
What is the radio?
It's Billie Jo's age as the novel opens
What is 13?
Ma's apple trees are "devoured" by these creatures
What are grasshoppers?
It's the holiday food Ma made that Pa loved most
What is cranberry sauce?
He's the son of the town shopkeeper
Who is Calb Hardly
"I stretch my fingers over the keys, and I" do this
What is play?
Billie Jo gives the family staying in her school these as a baby gift
What are feed-sack nighties?
Ma says these exact words about Billie Jo's state test score
What are "I knew you could?"
Pa says it's best to let the dead do this
What is "rest?"
She's the woman in Moline, Kansas whose husband Billie Jo met on her train ride
Who is Lucille?
"Louise doesn't say what I should do. She just" does this
What is nod[s?]