Across
- 2. What did Jeannette start collecting?
- 4. Exposed to danger; risky
- 7. When Rose Mary starts earning money, Rex would take it and spend most of it on __.
- 9. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragedy
- 10. More important, skillful, or successful than others
- 13. Rex and Rose Mary would leave all the windows and doors open at night, so random __ would come into the house and try to be inappropriate with the kids.
- 14. Rex got the family kicked out of ___ on Christmas by being drunk and rude.
- 15. Determination and guts
- 17. What type of supplies did Rose Mary spend most of her inheritance money on?
- 20. The Phoenix house was infested with ___, which ate through the floors.
- 21. Bad-tempered and argumentative
- 22. Rex and Rose Mary got into a ___ fight after he started drinking again, but no one got hurt.
- 27. The boy with the lopsided head who tries to touch Jeannette inappropriately.
- 28. Rose Mary decides that the family should all move to West ___.
- 29. Resembling a palace that is spacious and splendid
- 30. The kids, especially Brian, are starting to lose ___ in Rex.
- 31. Rex and Rose Mary are able to get extra money by ____ from their account.
Down
- 1. What religion was Rose Mary?
- 2. Dismiss to an inferior rank or position
- 3. A long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval
- 5. Where did all of the children sit on the way to Battle Mountain?
- 6. Rose Mary was caught _____ a dress for Maureen.
- 8. The family got kicked out of the zoo when Rex encouraged the kids to put their hands in the ___ enclosure.
- 11. Rex threw Jeannette into the hot pot over and over again to teach her to __.
- 12. The family has to skedaddle from Battle Mountain because the kids threatened Billy Deel with a ___.
- 16. What did Rose Mary get a job as?
- 18. Happening at irregular intervals or in a scattered, infrequent way
- 19. For her 10th birthday, Jeannette asks her dad to stop _____.
- 23. Rose Mary hopes that Rex's parents will help them out ___ if they move to West Virginia.
- 24. On the way to Phoenix, the kids learn that Grandma Smith __.
- 25. In a state of disrepair or ruin because of neglect or age
- 26. Extremely complex and difficult to follow, as in a story
- 29. A person who is disliked and rejected by society
