Why does Mrs Bigio change her attitude toward Mai Thi?
We know that Mrs. Bigio’s attitude towards Mai Thi changed after she had been teased by other students.
Why the severe snowstorm and power cut upset everyone in the hoodhood family?
Explain why the severe snowstorm and power cut upset everyone in the Hoodhood family. Mr. Hoodhood’s employees did not come into work and he was unable to make it to work, while Heather missed the Beatles concert on tv, Mrs. Hoodhood could not watch tv and was bored and Holling’s school was very cold.
What happened in Wednesday wars January?
In “January”, Holling’s picture is in the newspaper, depicting him flying over the stage in his yellow tights. Doug Swieteck’s brother cuts the photo from all the newspapers he can find, and hangs them all over the school. Holling is humiliated.
Why did the discrimination against Mai Thi escalate with the finding of the class pets?
Why did the discrimination against Mai Thi escalate with the finding og=f the class pets? She wasn’t scared of the rats and people thought she ate them. Explain the following allusion “Julius Caesar’s army wouldn’t have left such a mess after crossing the Rubicon.” Holling made the varsity cross country team.
What is the conflict between Mr hoodhood and his daughter?
Mr. Hoodhood feels that his chance to become the 1967 Chamber of Commerce Businessman might be jeopardized if people found out that his daughter does not support the US President and the war.
Who displays unexpected heroic qualities when she grabs the rats by their necks?
(March) He wants to avoid being at home. (March) Who displays unexpected heroic qualities when she grabs the rats by their necks? (March) Mrs. Sidman.
What did coach quatrini believe would push the runners to succeed?
What does coach Quatraini believe would push the runners to succeed? What pushed Holling to run the fastest time if the whole group? He believed motivation would push the runners to succeed. The rats came after Holling, so Holling had to run as fast as he can.
Did Mrs Baker reach into her lower desk drawer and pull out an Olympic silver medal?
Holling is equally unimpressed with his teacher’s qualifications for giving him running advice–until she pulls a wooden box out of her bottom desk drawer. In the box is a silver medal from the 1956 Olympics, held in Melbourne. Baker was part of the four-by-one hundred relay team, and Holling is stunned.
What was Mr Guareschi doing on the ladder?
Guareschi on a ladder removing tiles from the ceiling? There was a leak in a water pipe. o put out traps with cheese to catch the rats. He was hiding a security camera.
Why wouldn’t Mrs Baker let the students eat the cream puffs right after lunch?
Q. Why wouldn’t Mrs. Baker let the students eat the cream puffs right after lunch? They would be too full.
Why did Holling stay at the back of the eighth graders while running?
During cross country practice, why did Holling always try to stay at the back of the pack? Holling was only a seventh-grader and yet he made the varsity team. The jealous eighth-graders pulled down his shorts if he ran ahead of them.
What did Mrs Bigio ask Mai Thi?
Mrs. Bigio asks Mai Thi to live with her and Mai Thi says yes. How does Danny Hupfer’s Bar Mitzvah go?
What does Holling realize when his sister is gone?
Holling realizes that the biggest hole in the house is his sister’s absence and wonders if it takes losing something to know you love it. He realizes he does love his sister, but he can’t decide if he wants her to come back or find herself.
What did Danny Hupfer get for dumping his tray on the eighth graders bullying Mai Thi?
She saw how the other students treated Mai Thi after the rat incident. Q. What did Danny Hupfer get for dumping his tray on the eighth graders bullying Mai Thi? a trip to Washington, D.C.
Why does Danny Hupfer return his autographed baseball to Mickey Mantle?
Because he was wearing tights. What did Danny Hupfer do to show he supported Holling? He handed Mickey Mantle back his signed baseball. She had two Yankee baseball players, Joe Pepitone and Horace Clarke, waiting in the gym to play ball with them.
How did Mother Nature almost seem to go to war with Holling’s father?
Holling’s father wanted their home to be the Perfect House. Mother Nature was always at war with him because she kept him from his goal of the perfect house. The azaleas droop, and when Holling’s father wraps them in burlap, the burlap gets wet.