Study Guide

Missing May Characters

By Cynthia Rylant

Summer is a scrappy little girl, and our narrator to boot. She may be young, but she's definitely...

Uncle Ob is a good man, but when we meet him in the book he's kind of a downer. May, the love of...

When Summer first encounters Cletus Underwood, she's convinced that he's bad news: I'd been...

When we say that Aunt May is an angel, we don't mean that she became one when she...

Mr. and Mrs. Underwood aren't big characters and Summer only meets them once, however they help...