Eric
Eric's favorite baseball team.
What is the Chicago Cubs?
Where Jen wants to go college
What is Harvard?
The country where Declan was born.
What is Ireland?
This is where Nate lives.
What is Freeport, IL?
This is one theme of the novel.
What is Resilience? (or Hope, Personal Growth, Self-Discovery, Freedom, New Opportunities, Adversity, Perseverance, Triumph Over Hardship)
This character saves Eric from drowning.
Who is Matt?
The name of Jen's sister.
What is Rachel?
This is where Declan works.
What is the Krape Park boat dock?
This is Nate's neighbor across the street who laughs like a walrus.
Who is Billy?
Name a 90s movie mentioned in the novel.
What is The Sandlot? (or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Jurassic Park, Cliffhanger, The Firm.)
This kid runs to tell that Eric is getting beat up.
Who is Ronnie?
The three things to do in Freeport, according to the police officer who pulls over Jen.
What are Watch a Movie, Go to a Friend's to Watch a Movie, or Get Arrested?
This is what Declan used as a weapon against Greg.
What is a wine bottle?
What Nate's dad, Manny, builds for a living.
What are swimming pools?
This is one conflict of the novel.
What is Man vs Man? (or Man vs Self/Nature/ Society)
The suburb where Eric moves in the end.
What is Arlington, Mass?
The name or breed of her dog.
What is Pepper, the mini-dachshund.
Eric sees Declan get arrested for this terrible crime.
What is drunk driving?
The name of Nate's high school mascot
What is The Pretzels?
The federal holiday that takes place.
What is the Independence Day (July 4th)?
The town where Eric grew up
What is Fort Dodge, Iowa?
The name of Jen's best friend.
Who is Melissa?
Declan sold his car to buy this.
What is a motorcycle?
Nate's favorite band
What is The Smiths?
The genre of the novel
What is coming-of-age, or Bildungsroman?