Characters
Who is Flora Buckman?
This comic-loving girl is the main character and believes she’s a cynic.
What is the Ulysses 2000X vacuum cleaner?
This machine sucks up a squirrel, beginning the story’s unusual adventure.
What is a squirrel?
This kind of animal becomes a superhero in the story.
What is Pop?
The name Flora calls her father.
Flora says this funny word when something surprising or amazing happens.
What is Holy bagumba?
Who is Ulysses the squirrel?
This character gains superhero powers after being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
What is Ulysses?
After Flora saves the squirrel's life, this new name is given to him.
What is CPR (mouth-to-mouth)?
Flora helps save the squirrel by doing this emergency action.
What is a Saturday visit?
Flora’s dad comes to pick her up for this kind of visit.
This word means something bad or wrong, like when someone is causing trouble. Flora uses it in a superhero voice.
What is malfeasance?
Who is William Spiver?
This eccentric boy claims to be temporarily blind due to trauma.
What does Flora hide in her bedroom?
Flora secretly brings Ulysses into this part of the house, right under her mother’s nose.
What is Flora's mother's job?
She is a writer.
What's Flora's dad's name?
George Buckman
This word describes someone who doesn’t believe in happy endings—Flora calls herself this.
What is a cynic?
Who is Phyllis Buckman?
This romance-writing woman is Flora’s mother and insists Flora stay away from comics.
Who shockingly has typing skills?
Flora discovers Ulysses has this unexpected talent after finding a message on the typewriter.
What types of books does Flora's mother write?
Romance Novels
What does Flora's mother ask Flora's dad to do when she is scared of the squirrel?
To hit it with a shovel
Ulysses types this fancy word when he writes a poem. It means he has started fresh.
What is anew?
Who is Alfred T. Slipper (a.k.a. the Amazing Incandesto)?
This janitor-turned-superhero from Flora’s favorite comic is her idea of a true hero.
What is a Bootsie Boots shoebox?
Flora hides Ulysses here when she leaves with her father for their Saturday visit.
What does the vacuum cleaner do to the squirrel?
It sucks up his hair and gives it more brain power and super powers.
What is Flora's dad's job?
He is an accountant
Flora worries that this could be causing Mrs. Tickham to repeat herself—it’s a serious word for something in your head.
What is a brain tumor?