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Across 4. What book did Jeannette try to check out at the library? 5. What did Jeannette try to make to help her teeth? 6. When joining to complete sentences together 7. What do they put on layaway? 8. What do Jeannettee and Brian find in the dirt? 10. Where does Maureen wan to live? 14. What do you do at the beginning of a paragraph? 16. Who drove mom to work? 17. Who does Jeannette swim with? 19. What does dad say is important about real estate? 20. Jeannette wants mom to get help for the family and accept 21. What is the name of the school newspaper?

Down 1. What job does Jeannette tell the man who visits the house that her dad has? 2. Dinita stabs her step-dad and gets 3. What did they eat for supper one night that was cold? 9. What literary term is ¨Hail Mary?¨ 11. What does Dinitia tell Jeannette in a note? 12. What literary term is a description? ¨skinn like an iron skillet and nicotine-yellow eyes¨ 13. How do the kids try to help mom with the money? 15. What literary term is ¨Shrieking like hyenas?¨ 18. What does mom decide to do?