Things to look for in the book:

2. Things to look for in the book: • Similes uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are a like

3. Examples: • “your hair looks like a dust mop” p. 110 • “She has a voice like an angel.” p. 147

4. Idioms phrases we all hear and use that don’t make sense literally but we understand what they mean Example: Curiosity killed the cat. P. 137

5. Onomonopeia use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object Example: Whack. Whack.p 90

6. Journaling a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations • Flashbacks remember a past time or incident Example: Zach remembering his father bringing him journals in the hospital.

7. Inferences something that is inferred Infer - to hint; imply; suggest Example: “Mrs. Pyle handed him a sheet of paper. ‘We have one thousand one hundred and twenty-two students, nearly three hundred more studants than we can hold comfortably. The point is, Zach, you are not the only transfer student and you aren’t the only one with divorced parents.”p. 79 Meaning – the school is crowded and other students have problems too.

8. Conflict man vs. man man vs. society man vs. himself

9. Basques people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees regions in France and Spain Pyrenees a mountain range between Spain and France

10. France Spain