Little details
This is the name of the Roth's cat that Mango fathered kittens with.
Who is Twinkles?
This is Jenna's last name.
What is Davis?
This accessory symbolizes Mia and Jenna's relationship.
What is the friendship bracelet?
What is 8?
This restaurant is where Zack's food record is held.
What is McDonald's?
Mia sees Zack's name in this color.
What is robin's egg blue?
This member of Mia's family likely experienced synesthesia.
Who is Mia's grandmother.
It is ironic that this character's older sister is the one who bullies Mia at school.
Who is Billy Henkle?
What is summer camp?
Christopher Robin is a hint for this allusion which describes where Mango slept.
What is the Winnie-the-Pooh blanket?
The older man Mia met at the synesthesia group married his second wife because of his favorite food. Name this food.
What are peaches?
This synesthete says she likes poetry because it has the prettiest colored words.
Who is Helen?
Mia metaphorically describes herself as this object after Mango's death.
What is a balloon with helium?
What is Hanukkah?
Mia paints to this famous composer in the first half of the book.
Who is Mozart?
This was the breed of Roger's dog.
What is a Golden Retriever?
Mia's name has two different colors associated with these two fruits who share the same first letter.
What are apples and avocados?
Mia and Beth's relationship goes around and around. This popular attraction referenced at the very end of the book captures this symbolism.
What is a Ferris wheel?
What is "making a wish on a full moon?"
This artist inspired Mia to paint by the shapes he uses. Hint-His first name is Wassily.
Who is Kandinsky?
Mia returns to school on this day of the week following Mango's death.
What is Tuesday?
This is Zack's nickname for Beth.
Who is The Voodoo Vixen?
Explain Mia's symbolic reasoning behind her painting the Ibo slave ship lost at sea.
What is "to show that the souls of some of the Ibo are still not at rest?"
What is "giving Billy Henkle a head start that Mia didn't have."
Which classic novel is Mia given to read for class during her first week of school?
What is "Lord of the Flies?"