Key Details | Disasters of Leif | Leif's Past | Repeating Events | Leif's Massive Adventure |
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What is 12 years old?
Leif is this old when the story starts.
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What are Orca whales?
Leif encounters these animals, which almost kill Leif after they play with him.
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Who are Old Carl and Little Carl?
The people that Leif leaves camp with, and the last to die.
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What are salmon and blackberries?
The food that Leif eats almost exclusively throughout the book.
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What is make a proper gravestone?
The thing Leif does for Little Carl, the last person to die aboard the canoe?
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What is the death flu?
Leif has to leave his camp for this reason.
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What are massive waves?
These disasters almost kill Leif, and it is the last disaster of the novel.
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What is a statement from Old Carl?
The second reason Leif wants to make it to the North Wind.
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What is the North Wind?
The place that Leif is always trying to get to.
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What is to get to a non-diseased land full of freedom?
The main reason Leif tries to get to the North Wind.
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What is building a storyboard?
Leif does this in honor of a passed character and to record his history.
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What is Orca feeding?
This disaster is the second in the book, and the first one where he is "trapped" inside. Hint: the perpetrators are an answer in this category!
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What is trying to see her smile?
The reason Leif always remembers and dreams about his lost mother.
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What is a paddle canoe?
The mode of transportation Leif uses throughout the book.
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What is willpower and motivation?
The reason Leif lets nothing stop him?
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What are inlets and fjords?
These places on islands allow Leif to make temporary rest-sites.
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What is a massive whirlpool?
This is by far the most dangerous disaster, and the one that makes Leif lose nearly everything he has.
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What is for being a low class orphan?
The reason Leif was treated very poorly.
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What is a storyboard?
The way Leif records his and his friends' history throughout the book.
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Who is Odin, Norse god of life and death?
The person Leif repeatedly thanks throughout the entire book whenever he survives a disaster.
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What are disasters?
Leif gets into these certain events that jeopardize his survival.
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What is cholera?
This is the true name of the "death flu" that ravages Leif and his camp.
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What is the trauma from his past?
The reason Leif feels fear when he thinks that an iceberg is a possible ship.
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What are ravens and blue jays?
The non-aquatic animals that Leif runs into during almost every rest of the book.
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What is the sea of whales?
The only confirmed place where Leif gets a real night's sleep throughout the book.
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