Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

Question 1

plot summary- Navigating Early

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When Jack Baker’s mother dies, his father deposits him in the Morton Hill Academy for Boys in Maine, far from the only home he has ever known—Kansas. Alone and lonely, Jack befriends Early Auden, a strange, legendary boy who understands all manner of unknowable things, from the necessity of listening to Billie Holiday on rainy days to the secrets embedded in patterns of jelly beans. Most important, Early believes the unwinding digits in the calculation of pi hold a connection to his revered older brother, lost in the war. Jack and Early set out on a mysterious journey, following Pi’s story, tracking a great black bear along the Appalachian Trail, and searching for reconciliation neither knows he seeks. Along the way, they encounter a collection of characters, all of them wound up in Early’s eerily prescient Pi yarn.

Question 2

These are main characters in the book: Jack, Early, MacScott, Eustasia Johannsen, a bear

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Question 3

A boy in this novel believes that the unwinding digits in the calculation of Pi hold a connection to his older brother, lost in the war.

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Question 4

These are settings for this book: a boys school in the North East, the Appalacian Trail

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Question 5

Two boys find the long lost son, Martin, of Eustasia Johannsen in this book.

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Question 6

I live in Wichita, Kansas, about four blocks from where I grew up, in an old neighborhood called College Hill. From my house I can walk to my parents’ house, my sister’s house, the school I went to and where my kids go now, the pool, the sledding hill, and two bookstores!

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Question 7

This author also wrote the book Moon Over Manifest.

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Question 8

A man named Captain MacScott tells a story of how he lost his eye from the Great Bear of the Appalacian trail

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Question 9

A boy’s mother dies so he is moved to a boarding school in Maine

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Navigating Early By Clare Vanderpool