Small as an Elephant
The toe (tow) truck.
(Joke) Who does an elephant call when he breaks his toe?
There are footprints in the butter.
(Riddle) How do you know if an elephant is hiding in your refrigerator?
Trenton
A bus left every half hour from Bar Harbor to where?
It sounded for a while, but if you ignored it, it went away.
How did Jack describe hunger being like an alarm clock?
He banged it at the swimming pool.
How did Jack once break his toe?
With infrasonic sounds too low-pitched for humans to hear.
How do separated elephants keep in touch with one another?
3 days and 13 hours
How long would it take for Jack to walk home, according to the website?
248 miles
How many miles was Jack's trip from Bar Harbor to Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts?
three times
How many times had Jack's mom seen all 50 states license plates?
$1.90
How much money did Jack get from his collected cans?
twelve
How old are elephant bulls when they leave their mothers and the rest of the cow herd?
Seawall Campground on Mount Desert Island
In what campground did Jack's mother leave him?
Mosman Park
In what park did Jack hide behind a bank of lobster traps?
Acadia National Park
In what park is the Seawall Campground?
danger - tsunamis or earthquakes
What are elephants able to detect in advance?
red snappers
What are neon-red hot dogs called?
The Boxcar Children and The Great Gilly Hopkins
What books involve kids who end up living with rich relatives?
cereal bars
What did Jack add to the box from the food pantry that he could eat?
"Long story"
What did Jack always answer when Nina asked him to tell him what was going on?
trail mix and a bottle of water.
What did Jack buy at the grocery store on Roberts Avenue?
Mystery magazines from the 1970s
What did Jack read inside the toolshed near Mosman park?
Mudo (thank you)
What did Jack say to Sylvie when she gave him a grape?
An ice pack for his hurt finger.
What did Jack use a pack of frozen peas for?
He would be unschooled -- not homeschooled. Just learn through experience.
What did Jack's mom decide after she met with school guidance counselors at his school?
Drove the shuttle for the Intown Inn
What did Jack's mom do for a living?
sunken treasure
What did Jack's mom name the rarest color of all?
Every flavor of ice cream the store had.
What did Jack's mom once bring home to do a taste test with when she was spinning?
people - only more so.
What did Peter Corneille say elephants are like?
Licked her finger twice.
What did Sylvie's mom always do before picking up the Chance card in Monopoly?
If she was rich.
What did Wyatt ask Jack about his Gram that surprised him?
Blowing softly into its trunk
What did an elephant keeper say would make an elephant never forget you?
The treasure trove
What did the librarian at the Jesup Memorial Library say the room was called where they kept special books?
"Mama's boy"
What did the man in the Lamoine General Store call Jack when he said he was homeschooled?
Gas and electricity
What do Prius cars use for fuel?
Form new families.
What do elephants do if their family has been torn apart by poaching?
Fill their trunks with water and spray them.
What do elephants sometimes do to people who laugh at them?
Walk under an elephant's belly.
What do people do for luck in Thailand?
paints
What does Ruby, an elephant in Phoenix, Arizona do?
Poo Power
What does the Dallas Zoo call energy made from elephant poop?
The Fall Fling
What event did Jack want to be home for in the fall?
fantasy
What genre of books does Robin McKinley write?
He got it slammed by the lid to the trash bin.
What happened to Jack's finger?
The Jesup Memorial Library
What is the name of the library in Bar Harbor, Maine?
green
What is the rarest eye color?
A prius.
What kind of rental car did Jack's mom pick out?
lobsters, seals, moose, black bears
What kind of stuffed animals were in the camp store?
A Hubba tent
What kind of tent did Jack have?
Ellie, Ella, Dumbo, Horton, and Lydia
What names did Jack think of for his toy elephant?
A missing boy who might be on Mount Desert Island
What news story did Jack hear on the TV inside the old couple's cabin?
Bangor Daily News
What newspaper did the camp store carry?
The Atlantic
What ocean is in New England?
Curley Middle School
What school did Jack attend?
Lamoine Consolidated School
What school did Jack walk to from the old couple's cabin?
YouPage
What social network did Jack's mom use?
Mrs. Olson helped the food pantry, the food pantry helped her, and he was helping too.
What spiderweb did Jack start to notice when he was in the food pantry?
Melrose
What town in Massachusetts were the couple Jack met inside the lobster shack?
An orange and a pummelo.
What two fruits is a grapefruit a cross between?
To call her when he saw Lydia, and not to ever tell anyone she and Wyatt helped him.
What two things did Jack promise Sylvie?
Tennessee - with an elephant on it.
What was Jack's favorite license plate?
Becky Martel
What was Jack's mom's name?
The shoe
What was Sylvie's mom's and Jack's mom's favorite pieces to play in Monopoly?
Lobster salad on bread.
What was a traditional lobster roll?
A tall wooden lobster holding a triple-decker ice-cream cone in its claw.
What was outside Ben and Bill's Chocolate Emporium?
Narrows Too.
What was the bus stop right before the IGA in Trenton called?
The Corkscrew Coaster
What was the coolest ride Jack had ever been on?
Waldo
What was the name of the dog that almost found Jack hiding behind the lobster traps?
Lydia
What was the name of the elephant Jack in Maine off the Maine Pike?
Ten Tables
What was the name of the restaurant where Jack's mom was the owner?
Sand Beach and Thunder Hole
What were two places Jack's . mom wanted to show him on their trip?
Play Monopoly with her.
What would Sylvie do if she knew her mom was going to be taken away from her?
The Stone Zoo and the Franklin Park Zoo
What zoos had Jack gone to on a field trip?
A nearby cabin they were staying in for their vacation.
When the couple said they were going to take their lobsters back, where were they taking them to?
The Citgo gas station convenience store.
Where did Jack hear Wyatt talking about getting a reward for turning him in?
In a trash Dumpster
Where did Jack hide from the police outside the Citgo station?
The L.L. Bean Outlet store
Where did Jack hide out and sleep overnight in Lamoine?
The Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound
Where did Jack walk to when he got off the bus in Narrows Too?
Cambridge
Where did Jack's gram live?
Canobie Lake Park
Where did Jack's mom take him when she pulled him out of school?
Washington, DC
Where did a lawyer named Rebecca Martel live?
Iowa
Where did a real estate broker named Rebecca Martel live?
Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve
Where did an African elephant feed another elephant that was wounded a piece of Acacia tree?
In Mattapan.
Where had Jack and his mom once gone to an IGA supermarket?
In the basement of the YWCA. -- (W... not the YMCA) Careful on this question!
Where was the food pantry located in Bar Harbor?
Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey
Which was the best ice cream in Jack's mom's ice cream taste test?
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Who is the author of Small as an Elephant?
Nina while in class.
Who saw Jack online when he went onto YouPage?
Nina
Who was Jack's best friend?
Wyatt - Sylvie's cousin.
Who was in the van that stopped near Jack while he was walking?
The waitress from Geddy's.
Whose voice did Jack hear in the Jesup Memorial Library?
So he could get a ride to Massachusetts.
Why did Jack decide to hide in the bed of the couple's Silverado truck in the parking lot?
To use the computer to leave a message for his mom on YouPage.
Why did Jack need to go to the library in Bar Harbor?
So his wet clothes would dry.
Why did Jack put on clothes from L.L. Bean?
To research grapefruits.
Why did Jack's mom once use the computer at the library on the way home from the Inntown Inn?
She didn't think it was fair that she was being mean.
Why did Jack's mom sometimes stay away from him?
He stepped on a nail at the construction site near their building.
Why did Nina's mom insist that Jack get a tetanus shot?
She went to school in Indiana.
Why did Sylvie's mom always like to land on Indiana Avenue when playing Monopoly?
A mouse
Why did an elephant in a story Jack's mom told him save a grain each day for?
They have a thick casing
Why do red snapper hot dogs snap?
It was closed for Labor Day
Why was Jack unable to use the library in Bar Harbor?
