Answer Key for Characters
| Where to Look to Find a Description | |
| Stanley Yelnats IV | Page 7 - didn't have any friends overweight often teased about his size not a bad kid - innocent of crime arrested for and sentenced |
| Stanley Yelnats III (father) | Page 8, 9 inventor - trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers smart a lot of perseverance |
| Mr. Sir | Page 12-13 wore sunglasses and cowboy hat ate sunflower seeds to keep from smoking always saying, "You're not in the Girl Scouts anymore." |
| Mr. Pendanski (Mom) | Page 16, 57 younger than Mr. Sir not as scary looking as Mr. Sir top of his head shaved so close it was almost bald face covered in a thick curly black beard Nose badly sunburned councelor |
| Derrick Dunne | Page 23 bully tormented Stanley smaller than Stanley put Stanley's notebook in toliet |
| Clyde Livingston | Page 22, 24 baseball player led the American League in stolen bases only player in history to ever hit four triples in one game bad case of foot odor |
| Elya Yelnats | Page 28 Chapter 7 born in Latvia fifteen years old fell in love with Myra showed determination heart broken no sailing experience went to America forgot promise to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain and felt terrible fell in love with Sarah Miller worked hard bad luck followed him everywhere |
| Madame Zeroni | Page 29 dark skin very wide mouth when she looked at you, her eyes seemed to expand felt like she was looking right through you legs stopped at her ankle |
| Myra Menke | Page 29-30 - head's empty as a flowerpot beautiful delicate silly and foolish spoiled |
| Zero | Page 19, 37 Others think he has nothing inside his head smallest kid in Group D first one to finish digging hole |
| Barf Bag (Lewis) | Page 17 in hospital |
| X-Ray (Rex) | Page 18, 50, 53 wore glasses black always at the front of the line leader although wasn't the biggest or the toughest smallest except for Zero |
| Squid (Alan) | Page 17-18 white |
| Magnet (José) | Page 56 likes animals |
| Armpit (Theodore) | Page 20,23 gets angry when Stanley called him Theodore snored |
| Zigzag (Ricky) | Page 37 long skinny neck weirdest kid a big round head with wild frizzy blond hair that stuck out in all directions head seemed to bob up and down on his neck |