Kyle and BeeBee walked quickly around the remains of the Totem Pole Inn. - False – “BeeBee and I walked slowly around the remains of the Totem Pole Inn.”, Helicopters flew over the area following the coastline. - True – “Helicopters droned overhead, following the coastline.”, Pansy didn’t recognize Norm and ran in another direction. - False – “Pansy gave an excited ‘Yip!’ and took off down the beach. She ran in circles around the man walking toward us… ‘It’s Norm!’”, Kyle and BeeBee had to wait in line to get information. - True – “A long line of people stretched out of the tent.”, The night after the tsunami seemed very short to the children. - False – “The night had seemed endless.”, Kyle broke a sandwich to give pieces to Pansy. - True – “I broke the third sandwich into pieces and gave them to Pansy.”, Daren fell from the hotel tower during the wave. - False – “The first one picked me up and dropped me on top of the Totem Pole Inn’s elevator tower. I clung to the edge of the roof…” (he didn’t fall, he held on), Kyle raised his batting average after the summer. - True – “I ended the season batting .235, which was fifteen points higher than the year before…”, Kyle learned to do a wheelie on his scooter. - False – “I didn’t learn to pop a wheelie on my scooter either, although I skinned up my arms and legs trying.”, Daren admitted he was scared during the tsunami. - False – “I was never scared!” / “Liar, I thought. We were all scared.”, Kyle confronted Daren for pushing BeeBee in the hotel. - True – “Lay a hand on her, and you’ll wish you hadn’t,” I said., BeeBee defended Kyle in front of Daren. - True – “He did too save you… I was there.”, Kyle threatened Daren saying all of Kansas would hear his story. - True – “If you don’t quit bothering us, the whole state of Kansas is going to hear how you pushed an eight-year-old down…”, Kyle felt more confident after confronting Daren. - True – “I felt ten feet tall. Daren was backing down!”, Daren finally smiled at Kyle at the end of the story. - True – “And then the really amazing thing happened: Daren Hazelton actually smiled at me.”, Kyle invited Daren to wait in line with them. - True – “This is the line for information,” I said. “You can wait with us.”, Kyle and BeeBee hid behind a tree to protect themselves from the second wave. - True – “…we hid behind a big tree.”, The hotel’s concrete tower resisted the second wave. - True – “…but the concrete tower held.”, Norm decided to jump from the tree with Josie during the wave. - False – “I was able to hang on but Josie couldn’t. The force of the water was too much for her.”, Josie survived the second wave. - False – “She lost her grip and was swept away.”, Pansy helped the children detect the coming wave. - True – “She barked to let us know when the second wave was coming…”, Telephone lines worked perfectly after the tsunami. - False – “There’s still no power… without telephone lines they can’t send that information elsewhere.”, Emergency workers used mobile radios and ham radio operators to communicate. - True – “…Emergency workers have mobile radios that run on vehicle batteries, plus we have a network of ham radio operators.”, TV reporters reported through a satellite link. - True – “A TV news crew has a satellite link…”, The Elegant Empress sank during the wave. - False – “The Elegant Empress was far enough away from shore that it was able to ride the tsunami waves without capsizing.”, All passengers and crew of the Elegant Empress were safe. - True – “…All passengers and crew are safe.”, Kyle’s parents arrived in a yellow school bus. - True – “An hour later, Mom and Dad arrived in a yellow school bus…”, Kyle got a raise in allowance for his responsible actions. - True – “…We’ve decided to raise your allowance.”, Kyle finished the baseball season with a higher batting average than last year. - True – “I ended the season batting .235, which was fifteen points higher than the year before…”, Kyle managed to pop a wheelie on his scooter before school started. - False – “I didn’t learn to pop a wheelie on my scooter either…”, Kyle was still afraid of Daren at the beginning of the new school year. - False – “I wasn’t afraid of Daren anymore.”, BeeBee had a new teddy. - True – “…She named it Dollar Bill.”,

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