Because of Winn Dixie

When Opal first let Winn-Dixie into the trailer, he...

• put his head right in the preacher's lap

• whimpered softly and cowered by the door

• knocked over the china cabinet and broke all the vases

• growled and barked loudly when the preach

What was the tenth thing that the preacher told Opal about her mother?

• She hadn't really wanted to have children

• She had worked as a teacher in Naomi.

• She had loved Opal very much.

• She had the most beautiful voice he had ever heard.

Miss Franny became a librarian at a young age because...

• her mother had been a librarian and often took Franny to work

• her family was poor and she needed a job at a young age

• she had asked her father for a library when she was small

• she used to run a free library with her friends, using her own books

What was one reason Opal suddenly didn't feel so lonely in Naomi anymore?

• Two letters from old friends in Watley arrived in the mail.

• The preacher had agreed to teach Sunday School classes in his home.

• Amanda promised to introduce Opal to her three best friends at school.

• She had received from Sweetie Pie her first invitation to a party.

Why did Gloria Dump want Opal to plant a tree?

• to see if Opal had her mother's green thumb

• so Opal would have something of her very own

• so Opal would have to keep visiting Gloria

• to show Opal the beauty of nature

One night, the preacher said that Winn-Dixie had a pathological fear of ...

• cats

• plastic bags

• church bells

• thunderstorms

In the story Miss Franny told, why did Littmus decide to make candy?

• During the war, a soldier entrusted him with a secret recipe.

• He was eager to make a living working with his hands.

• He thought it important to continue the family business.

• He wanted to put some sweetness into the world.

What did Opal learn about Amanda that explained why she was "pinch-faced"?

• Like Opal's mother, her mother had left the family, too.

• Her brother, Carson, had drowned the previous year.

• Her father ignored her most of her life because he had really wanted a boy.

• She had once been viciously attacked by a stray dog.

Before he left jail, Otis had been made to promise that he would....

• never again play his guitar on the street

• get a job within thirty days

• leave the state and never come back

• stay out of trouble for the next ten years

While talking to her mother under Gloria Dump's mistake tree, Opal said....

• her father had become a great dad and mom

• her heart was full all the way up

• she often wondered if the preacher had asked her mother to leave

• she and Winn-Dixie would never stop looking for her mother