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There's pandemonium in Green Lawn! The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But as soon as the pandas arrive, the baby is stolen! All the panda-nappers want in return is a million dollars…Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose collar the culprits before Green Lawn has to cough up the cash?
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
What did the kids come to the petting zoo to see?
Page 1 — A mama panda and her baby
1
What strange behavior did Ping show while the crowd was outside her cage?
Page 6 — She ran into the fence
6
What’s missing from the panda cave?
Page 8 — The baby panda, Winnie
8
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
What did the kidnappers want in exchange for Winnie?
Page 11 — A million dollars
11
What did Pal find the in the bamboo forest?
Page 13 — a fishing knife
13
Why would the kidnapper have a knife?
Page 14 — To cut down bamboo stalks to feed Winnie
14
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
Why do the kids watch Ruth Rose’s video at the petting zoo?
Page 19 — It might give them ideas who stole the panda
19
Who does Ruth Rose think suspects are?
Page 21 — Irene Napper, Flip Frances, or Tom Steele; the people standing by the microphone
21
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
Why did the three kids want to interview each of the three people that stood by the microphone?
Page 23 — To try and get some answers
23
What was Irene doing when the kids found her in the park?
Page 24 — Feeding the ducks
24
Who has a key to Ping’s gate?
Page 28 — Only Irene
28
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
Why does Josh think Irene kidnapped Winnie?
Page 31 — She has large hands
31
Why does Josh think Tom Steele did it?
He has a cut on his hand that could have been from Winnie and has a fishing pole p.37 & 38
What was another clue Ruth Rose saw on Tom’s desk?
Page 38 — There were newspapers all cut up; the ransom note was put together from newspaper clippings
38
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
Where did the kids find Flip?
Page 40 — At the fitness center
40
What made Josh think the kidnapper was Flip?
Page 45 — He was great at doing flips; he would have easily been able to get over the fence of the panda enclosure
45
What’s another clue Flip could have kidnapped Winnie?
Page 46 — He fishes
46
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What piece was missing when the twins were completing a puzzle together?
Page 50 — The baby grizzly bear’s face
50
What did Ruth Rose realize they should be looking for?
Page 51 — Winnie, not the person who took her
51
Why did the kids think the fitness center would be a good hiding place for Winnie?
Page 53 — It’s smelly and loud
53
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
What did the kids find when they slipped into the unmarked door?
Page 60 — A wooden staircase
60
What explained the sounds of thunder they heard?
Page 62 — The bowling alley was on the other side of the wall
62
What did the kids find under the mat they were sitting on?
Page 64 — A trap door
64
Chapter 9
Comprehension questions
Who was in the room under the trap door?
Page 66 — Winnie
66
How did the kids get locked in that room?
Page 66 — Someone shut the door and locked it
66
What did the kids find that may help them get out of the coal room?
Page 71 — A coal chute that leads to the outside
71
Chapter 10
Comprehension questions
How did the kids break the wood that blocked the chute?
Page 72 — Dink found a shovel
72
Why did the boys choose Ruth Rose to go get the police?
Page 76 — she was the smallest to fit in the chute
76
How did the boys find Winnie?
Page 78 — She crawled up into Josh’s lap
78
Chapter 11
Comprehension questions
What is Flip’s consequence for kidnapping Winnie?
Page 83 — Community service
83
What did the kids suggest could be Flip’s community service?
Page 83 — Free gymnastics lessons for kids; do exercises with the old people in the senior center
83
How did Officer Fallon treat the kids for solving the mystery?
Page 85 — He bought them ice cream cones
85
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