In Cuba
The kitten in Havana and the character Isabel are alike.
What is both are hungry?
What is both are in need of a bath?
Isabel's neighbors who are building a boat in the shed
Who are the Castillos, Ivan's parents?
The situation of Isabel's mother
What is, she is pregnant, and almost ready to have her baby?
Name six people who are on the boat
Who are Isabel, her mother and father, her grandfather Lito, Senor and Senora Castillo, Ivan, Luis and Amara?
What happens when Ivan and Isabel are in the water
What is, Ivan is bitten by a shark?
The reason why Cubans are poor and hungry?
What is: 1. When the Soviet Union went away, the sugarcane fields had no one to pay for their product? and/or: What is 2. Without Russia's gas, Cubans couldn't run the tractors to plant the fields?
What Isabel trades for two enormous jugs of gasoline for the boat.
What is her trumpet?
The situation on the beach as they take the boat to sea.
What is, many people are launching boats and rafts, television cameras are there, and lots of people?
Name a big problem Isabel and the people on the boat had at sea.
What is the boat's engine stopping?
Or, what is almost getting hit by the tanker?
Or, what is Senor Castillo falling in the water?
What the people on the boat see as they bury Ivan in the sea
What are the lights of Miama?
Isabel does this to make money in Havana.
What is play the trumpet?
The leader of Cuba changes the rules for people wanting to leave Cuba.
What is, he suspends all obstacles, and says people may leave Cuba legally?
The identity of the two police officers who join Isabel and the other in the boat.
Who are Luis, Ivan's brother, and Luis's girlfriend?
The work the people on the boat have to do constantly
What is bail the water out of the bottom of the boat?
What is, a US Coast Guard vessel finds them?
The event that causes Isabel and her family to need to leave Cuba.
What is a riot in the streets of Havana?
The leader of Cuba at this time.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The problem the police create for the boat
What is a bullet hole in the side of the boat?
The name of the country where they first see land
What is the Bahamas?
How the people on the boat distract the Coast Guard so that they can get to the beach in Miami
What is, Isabel's grandfather Lito jumps in the water so that the Coast Guard has to rescue him first before getting to the boat?
What Isabel calls her parents.
What are Mami and Papi?
America's new policy about Cuban refugees.
What is Wet Foot, Dry Foot? If Cubans are caught at sea, they were sent to Guantanamo. If they manage to set foot on US soil, they were granted refugee status.
The distance from Havana to Miami, approximately.
What is 90 miles?
The people on the pier in the place they first land do something kind for Isabel and the people on the boat
What is give them food and water and aspirin?
The memento Isabel keeps to remind her of Ivan
What is, his Industriales baseball cap?