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What are the names of the 3 children?
Kenny, Byron, Joetta
What is the name of the city in Michigan where the Watsons live?
Flint Michigan is the name of the city where the Watsons live.
What did Kenny and Byron had to get off the car before the family drove off?
They had to scrape the ice from the car?
Who's the king of the school and the one who sometimes protects Kenny?
Byron is in the 6th grade.
What is the name of Kenny's bestfriend
Rufus is Kenny's bestfriend.
What city in Alabama is Momma from?
Momma is from Birmingham.
What happened to Byron's lips?
Byron's lips got stuck to the window when he kissed it.
Why was Byron happy when he saw Rufus get on the school bus?
He thought kids would stop teasing him and start teasing Rufus.
What did Byron and Buphead do to Kenny when Kenny was walking in the snow?
They smashed snow in his face and kept throwing him in the snow.
Byron's bestfriend is Buphead.
Why don't Momma like living in Michigan.
She do not like how cold it gets.
What do Momma do when she laughs?
She covers her mouth with her hands when she laughs.
Bonus 100 points
Why do she cover her mouth with her hands?
Kenny was good at reading so the teachers made him read to the older kids.
What story did Byron tell Kenny and Joey when Joey did not want to wear all the extra clothes that Momma made them wear?
He told them that people who didn't wear the extra clothes would freeze to death and the garbage men would collect their dead bodies and throw them in the garbage trucks.
What is the name of the kid who bullies Kenny?
Larry Dunn bullies Kenny.
When thinking about the weather, what is the difference between Michigan and Alabama?
Flint get very cold in the winter and Alabama is warm all year long.
What do people call the Watsons?
People call them the Weird Watsons.
What did Larry steal from Kenny and then what happened to Larry afterwards?
Larry stole gloves from Kenny and then Byron beat up Larry.
Why did Momma say she was going to burn off Byron's fingers?
She was going to burn his fingers because he kept playing with fire.
Bonus 100 points
Why didn't she burn his fingers with the matches?
What are Momma and Dad real names?
Momma and Dad real names are Wilona Watson and Daniel Watson.
Where is Rufus from?
If you cannot think of the city, what part of the country is he from north, south, east or west.
Rufus is from Arkansas.
He's from the west.
What do people call Kenny at school because he's so smart?
They call him Poindexter.
Bonus question: what grade did he read to?
Why did Rufus stop being friends with Kenny?
Rufus stopped being friends with Kenny because Kenny laughed when Rufus was getting teased.
Bonus question extra 100 points: Why was Rufus getting teased?
What did Byron do to his hair and why? What was his punishment?
Byron put chemicals in his hair because he wanted straight hair.
As a punishment, Dad cut all of Byron's hair off.