The Bean Trees

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Across
  1. 6. Turtle’s actually name
  2. 8. Lou Ann’s abusive husband
  3. 9. Sing A women who always is the cashier at the local market
  4. 12. The state where Taylor lived with her mother
  5. 13. The bean lover in the book
  6. 16. The teacher that changed Taylor’s life by giving her a job (first name only)
  7. 17. She is handed a child by a stranger
  8. 18. She runs Jesus is Lord Used Tires
  9. 20. Lou Ann’s split personality cat
  10. 21. “And me. I was the ____ ingredient.”
  11. 22. She lost her own child in Guatemala
  12. 23. Mattie gave Turtle some of these to play with because Turtle liked them so much
  13. 24. Taylor befriends her while they work at Burger Derby
  14. 26. Bob He sells tomatoes off the back of his truck
  15. 28. Ray Lou Ann and Angel’s son
  16. 29. Taylor’s love interest
  17. 30. Even a spotted ___ looks black at night
Down
  1. 1. “Feeding a ____ is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig.”
  2. 2. This animal often symbolized Turtle throughout the novel
  3. 3. Mattie takes her friends to the desert to smell the ___.
  4. 4. Turtle’s doppelganger
  5. 5. William The jumpy priest
  6. 7. His father was blown over the top of the Standard Oil sign (first name only)
  7. 9. Ann Friend of Taylor who has low self-esteem
  8. 10. She was Taylor and Turtle’s therapist
  9. 11. Virgie Mae Parsons wakes Lou Ann and Taylor in the middle of the night in order to see these
  10. 12. The author of the novel
  11. 14. Nation Where Taylor believes that Turtle was born
  12. 15. Esteban is not Mexican, but he is _____
  13. 17. The city where Taylor and Lou Ann live
  14. 19. Poppy Taylor and Lou Ann’s blind friend
  15. 21. Taylor’s original name
  16. 23. Arrow The motel where Taylor worked when she first had Turtle
  17. 25. Taylor is afraid of this particular item because of a traumatic experience in her past
  18. 27. What Taylor paned to do with Turtle once she found her biological parents