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Vocabulary
Strange Things
Clues
All About the Baileys
All About the Stranger
100
It is a synonym for "fear".
What is "terror"?
100
The mercury in the doctor's thermometer should have done this when it was put into the Stranger's mouth.
What is risen?
100
When he saw some rabbits, it is the one clue that let the reader know that the Stranger was very different.
What is because the rabbits were not afraid of him?
100
Because the weather was warmer than usual, this kept growing larger than ever on the Bailey farm.
What are pumpkins?
100
This event proved that the Stranger was harmless.
What is when he watched the sun set with Katy?
200
If something "amazed" you, it also did this.
What is "fascinated"?
200
It is the way the author let us know that the Stranger was "special" when he worked with Mr. Bailey in the fields.
What is because he never got tired and never sweat?
200
It is the first clue given in the story that lets the reader know that the weather should have changed to fall.
What is when a flock of geese flew south?
200
The trees to the north of the Bailey farm were different in this way.
What is they had red and orange leaves?
200
When the Stranger blew on his soup he made this cold "current of air".
What is a "draft"?
300
It is another name for a "sitting room".
What is a "parlor"?
300
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey think the Stranger is a hermit because he does not seem to be able to do this.
What is speak?
300
This was one clue in the story that made the story a fantasy because it never could really have happened.
What is that the leaves changed color in one day?
300
This might have happened if the Stranger stayed at the Bailey farm forever.
What is that it would always be summer?
300
The Stranger realized that something was terribly wrong at the Bailey farm when this event happened.
What is when the leaves at the Bailey farm stayed green?
400
A person who is "fearful" might also be ....
What is "timid"?
400
The Stranger seemed confused about these things on the clothes that Mr. Bailey lent him.
What are buttons and buttonholes?
400
It was the first clue at the start of the story that let you know the Stranger had some mysterious powers.
What is he got up after being hit by a truck without being harmed?
400
This created the draft in the house that bothered Mrs. Bailey.
What is when the Stranger blew gently on his soup?
400
The Stranger left a message on the window etched in this "frozen moisture".
What is "frost"?
500
Something that is "carved" could also be this.
What is "etched"?
500
When the Baileys hurried outside to say good-bye to the Stranger, they found that...
What is that the stranger disappeared?
500
The Stranger stared at this in the sky as if he had never seen it before.
What are the geese flying south?
500
The Baileys knew that the Stranger was about to leave them when he did this.
What is dressed in his old leather clothes?
500
We know that the Stranger continued to care about the Baileys because of these two things he did.
What is that the leaves there stayed green for one extra week each autumn, and he left a message etched in the glass -"See you next fall"?