Math
This is the customary unit you use to measure how heavy a whale is.
What are tons?
Who is the author of Catcher in the Rye?
JD Salinger
In "Las Ciruelas", Esperanza is worried about her family because...
There is a terrible dust storm.
This brave woman is credited for bringing water to desperately thirsty patriot soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
If you race in this sport, you will learn free style, the backstroke and the butterfly stroke. Stay in your lane!
What is swimming?
Use would use this metric unit to measure how much liquid fits in an eye dropper.
What are milliliters?
On the first day of work in the sheds with Hortensia and Josefina, Esperanza learns...
Where potatoes come from
Miguel steals this when he leaves the camp in the middle of the night.
Esperanza's money orders.
This is the name of the German soldiers who were paid to fight against the patriots.
What are Hessians or mercenaries?
Aaron Judge and Bobby Witt, Jr. are standout players of this sport.
What is baseball?
This describes the type of units of measurement that are mostly used in the United States.
What are customary units of measurement?
Marta calls Esperanza "Cinderella" when...
Esperanza does not know how to sweep the platform.
Mama gives this to the peasant girl on the train ride from Zacatecas.
A yarn doll.
After crossing the freezing Delaware River, Washington and his troops marched nine miles to this place for a surprise attack the day after Christmas.
What is Trenton or the Battle of Trenton?
This sport sounds good for Valentines Day because the score begins with "Love".
What is tennis?
This is a measurement of the distance all the way around a closed shape.
What is perimeter?
This is how Hortensia treats Esperanza's cut and swollen hands.
She uses mashed avocados.
Miguel retrieves Abuelita and brings her to America because...
He knows that Esperanza and Mama need her.
This was added to the Constitution of the United States to guarantee American citizens certain rights and protections by law.
What is The Bill of Rights?
In Game 1 of the NBA finals, the Oklahoma Thunder was defeated by this team.
Who are the Indiana Pacers?
This is the number of square units needed to cover a shape without any overlap.
What is area?
In "Los Higos", Mama shakes Esperanza awake in the middle of the night because...
The house is on fire.
In the last chapter, Esperanza tells Abuelita what has happened within the past year. When she tells the story, she doesn't use the names of months to measure time. Instead she uses...
The names of fruits and vegetables which represents the different times of harvest on a farm.
To keep any person or group of people from having too much power, our founding fathers set up these three branches of government.
What are the legislative, judicial and executive branches?
This is a winter sport played on ice where two teams of four players take turns sliding granite stones towards a target area called the "house".
Players also sweep the ice in front of their stones to manipulate their speed and direction.
What is curling?