Characters
Was arrested for a brake light being out while driving to a Fugees soccer game
Luma
Why does the policeman pull Luma over?
Her brake light was out.
Where are the Dikoris from?
The Nuba Mountains of Sudan
"I should have been there and I wasn't, and the way it happened probably messed you guys up"
Luma
The Fugees team manager that bails Luma out of jail
Tracy Ediger
What does Paula Balegamire see news reports of? Why do these reports worry her?
She sees news reports of prison riots in Kinshasa. These reports worry her because her husband is held in Kinshasa, and she doesn't know if he is alive or not.
What country is Joni Scherzer from?
Austria
"I'd spent so much of my time thinking I was just dumb. It was like finding a missing piece to a puzzle I'd been searching for my whole life"
David Anderson
Player on Luma's u13 Fugee team who becomes quiet and reserved after a car accident that kills his mother and daughters.
Idwar Dikori
What did Grace Balegamire hear outside his apartment at the end of Chapter 28?
Gunshots
Why does Luma take the Fugees to a wealthier town for Halloween?
Luma wants the Fugees to experience an American Holiday in an American way.
"If you pay five hundred ice creams you can come out of jail?"
Grace Balegamire's younger brother
Head coach of Athen Gold Valiants that cheers for the Fugees during the game because he saw that they didn't have a coach
David Anderson
What kind of costumes did Luma buy the Fugees?
Why wasn't Halloween a very big holiday in Clarkston?
It was a town filled with refugees, most of which hadn't even heard of it.
"In my country...if someone comes from out of the country, people want to talk to them and get to know them. Here, it's almost like they're afraid of you"
Shamsoun Dikori
The trucker that helped the Dikori's after their car accident
Thomas Combs
What town does Luma take the Fugees for Halloween?
The wealthy part of Decatur.
When Luma was asked, "What are you doing here?" and she responded by saying she was on her way to a soccer game, what was the clerk really asking Luma?
What was she doing in America.
"They played different from American soccer...It was more European - not kickball"
Joni Scherzer