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1. Why is Robin missing school at the beginning of the book?

Theo has pulled Robin from school for a week and brought him to the woods. There had been more trouble with his classmates, and they needed a time-out. Theo brought him to the Smokies where they would sleep outside and celebrate Robin's ninth birthday.

2. What is the cabin like that Theo rents in the Smokies for Robin's ninth birthday?

Theo rents a cabin in the Smokies for Robin's ninth birthday. The downstairs of the cabin is one great paneled room. The kitchen has sticky notes on the cabinets with instructions and noting where things can be found. Ceiling-high windows face the mountains.

3. Why has Theo never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on his son?

Theo has never believed the diagnoses the doctors have settled on his son. When a condition is given three different names over 30 years, when it requires two subcategories to try to account for contradictory symptoms, when it goes from nonexistent to the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, there is something wrong.

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