The Bean Trees

2. “And me. I was the ____ ingredient.”
3. Mattie takes her friends to the desert to smell the ___.
5. William The jumpy priest
6. Bob He sells tomatoes off the back of his truck
8. The state where Taylor lived with her mother
10. Ann Friend of Taylor who has low self-esteem
12. Turtle’s doppelganger
13. The teacher that changed Taylor’s life by giving her a job (first name only)
16. Mattie gave Turtle some of these to play with because Turtle liked them so much
17. His father was blown over the top of the Standard Oil sign (first name only)
20. She lost her own child in Guatemala
22. Ray Lou Ann and Angel’s son
24. She is handed a child by a stranger
26. Moving to another country and risking everything
29. The author of the novel
31. She runs Jesus is Lord Used Tires
32. Turtle’s actually name
35. This animal often symbolized Turtle throughout the novel
36. She was Taylor and Turtle’s therapist
37. The bean lover in the book

1. Taylor is afraid of this particular item because of a traumatic experience in her past
4. What Taylor paned to do with Turtle once she found her biological parents
5. Virgie Mae Parsons wakes Lou Ann and Taylor in the middle of the night in order to see these
7. Estevan is not Mexican, but he is _____
9. Nation Where Taylor believes that Turtle was born
10. Sing A women who always is the cashier at the local market
11. The city where Taylor and Lou Ann live
14. Taylor befriends her while they work at Burger Derby
15. Where Turtle sees her family
18. Where Taylor’s Volkswagen broke down
19. Poppy Taylor and Lou Ann’s blind friend
21. Lou Ann’s abusive husband
23. Arrow The motel where Taylor worked when she first had Turtle
25. “Even a spotted ___ looks black at night”
27. Taylor’s original name
28. Taylor’s love interest
30. The bug that symbolizes the ability to thrive
31. The word that Turtle puts in front of people’s names
33. “Feeding a ____ is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig.”
34. The plant that symbolizes the ability to thrive