The Strangest of Boys
It's the place where Jack sees Early for the first time.
What is on the beach?
It starts with a "q", and it the feeling of nausea - like when you have an upset stomach.
What is "queasy"?
The first boat that Jack tried to row at the Academy.
What is the Sweetie Pie?
The first 3 digits.
What are 3.14?
He's a frog.
Who is Bucky?
It's the music Early listens to when it is raining.
Who is Billie Holiday?
It's a rhyming word that means a mixture of unusual things. The "dge" parts both sound like J's.
What is a hodgepodge?
It means she's quick to maneuver, easy to turn.
What is yar?
The place value of the digit that represents Pi, the character.
What is the tenths digit?
They are worn around a soldier's neck to identify the soldier in case of death.
What are dog tags?
It's what Early does when he is upset. Maybe the colors soothe him.
What is sort jellybeans?
It's a literary technique where someone says similar sounds. If the sounds are consonants (not vowels), then there's that.
What is alliteration?
It's the piece of the boat that Jackie found on the dock after he ditched Early.
What is a brass nameplate?
The name that Pi is trying to earn.
What is Polaris?
It's what Jackie saw at the bottom of the pool.
What is a (navigator) ring?
It's the place where Jack talks to Early for the first time.
What is in the custodian's room, aka Early's bedroom?
Beginning with the root "bene-", it means kind, or good-natured.
What is benevolent?
It's a type of boat race. The boys compete in it every year. Parents come to watch.
What is a regatta?
Pi's guide, known in Latin as Ursa Major.
What is the great bear?
When the author, Clare Vanderpool, talked about clicking heels three times to return to Kansas, she was making one of these.
What is an allusion?
The place where Jack and Early talk for the second time. It is also the oldest building on the campus. Oh yeah, lots of boats in there.
What is the Nook?
It's the sensation some people get that mixes two sense together, such as music and color (hearing and sight), or numbers and textures (sight and touch).
What is synesthesia?
It's Fish's old boat - the beauty hanging in the boathouse.
What is the Maine?
Pi's mother.
What is 3?
It's both of the people who Early is looking for.
Who are Pi and Fisher?