Saving H’Non: Chang and the elephant
H’Non, a 50 year old Asian elephant who was stolen in Vietnam when she was 4.
What real life animal is the story Saving H’Non: Chang and the elephant based on?
This shows the elephant is distressed.
What does an elephant wobbling (shaking her head constantly) show?
Reverend Flowers
When Aunt Polly died, to whom did she leave her pie shop?
Alice gave each person a little advice about making their favorite pies like Aunt Polly’s. She passed on lots of things Aunt Polly taught her.
While helping Charlie deliver groceries around town, what did Alice do to help each customer?
Sam is typically terrified of driving a car. She always remembers what happened with her father and freezes when she drives a car.
Why is it such a big deal that Sam wants to drive her and Lily to the hospital?
Roughly 40,000 muscles
How many muscles are in an elephant’s trunk?
What was unusual about what Polly did with the pies she baked?
Polly did not sell her pies, she gave them away. Instead of money, people brought Polly more ingredients.
Aunt Polly’s secret recipe for her pie crust was left to Lardo, her cat. The cat was left to Alice to care for.
What happened to Aunt Polly’s secret pie crust recipe when she died?
Ranger Appreciation Day
What holiday is May 21st in Vietnam?
She learns that it does not always mean curing an illness.
What does Lily learn about “healing at the end of the book?
African Savanah, African Forest, and Asian
What are the three living types of elephants?
Alice found the place had been ransacked; the burglar was looking for something.
When Lardo ran away, Alice went back to the pie shop to see if he returned to his home. What did she find happened at the pie shop?
While Alice and Charlie were still investigating the break in at the pie shop, what did Alice realize was different about Aunt Polly at the funeral?
Aunt Polly always wore a key around her neck. It was no longer there when Alice wentup to the casket at the funeral yet her parents insisted it was around Aunt Polly’s neck at the funeral.
Fighting, digging holes, finding water, and peeling off tree bark to eat
How do male elephants use their tusks?
She left kid-sized muddy footprints everywhere.
How did Joe know Lily broke into the library?
Poachers kill them for their ivory tusks.
Why are elephants in danger of extinction?
A squirrel
What did Alice tell Aunt Polly she wanted to be when she grew up?
While they were peeking over Miss Gurke’s fence, a horse fly bit Charlie’s neck. He screamed and threw Alice over the fence.
How did Charlie catapult Alice over Miss Gurke’s fence?
“Long, long ago when tiger walked like man...)
What phrase starts all of Halmoni’s stories?
What is Kosa?
When they lay food out for spirits and ancestors to eat first.
Tay Nguyen, Vietnam
Where is Yok Don National Park located?
It stands for Quiet Asian Girl.
What does QAG stand for?
Alice found the matching earring to the one that was under the radiator and a suitcase with the initials J.Q. on it.
What 2 things did Alice find in Sylvia DeSoto’s green Chevrolet?
She collapses and they have to call 911 to take her to the hospital.
What happens when Halmoni heads upstairs to see where the sound of glass breaking came
from?
It sits atop a hill in Sunbeam, Washington.
What is the most distinctive feature of Halmoni’s house?