The Parker Inheritance

Chapters 1-6

Reading Check

1. Romance novels (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. She has a tennis court excavated because she thinks doing this will give her the solution to the inheritance mystery. (Chapter 1)

2. Anne scolds Candice in front of Brandon about the volume of her music. (Chapter 5)

Chapters 7-11

Reading Check

1. Enoch Washington (Chapter 9)

Short Answer

1. Brandon notices that the letter writer says “grandchild” rather than “grandchildren,” which implies that the writer knows for sure that Candice is the only grandchild. (Chapter 7)

2. The letter is dated exactly 50 years after the tennis match took place. (Chapter 10)

Chapters 12-16

Reading Check

1. Baseball (Chapter 15)

Short Answer

1. Joe insinuates that there are romantic feelings between Candice and Brandon, and he asks Candice whether her mother has been dating anyone while they have been in Lambert. (Chapter 13)

2. During the argument between her parents, Candice hears her mother question her father about a woman called “Danielle” who has been living with her father. (Chapter 14)

Chapters 17-20

Reading Check

1. Milo’s (Chapter 19)

Short Answer

1. Enoch Washington went to this same church, and Brandon hopes that someone in the congregation might have useful information about the Washingtons. (Chapter 18)

2. The article is about a Black woman who recently won a tennis match at Wimbledon. (Chapter 20)

Chapters 21-24

Reading Check

1. Langston Hughes (Chapter 21)

Short Answer

1. He accuses Candice and Brandon of being thieves and liars. (Chapter 22)

2. Anne supports Candice and tells her that she plans to confront the school about this incident. (Chapter 24)

Chapters 25-27

Reading Check

1. Siobhan Washington (Chapter 26)

Short Answer

1. Candice reasons that if these people have any useful information, they should have already used it to help her grandmother. (Chapter 25)

2. He tells his son that the relationship will not work because Chip cannot understand what it means to be Black in America. (Chapter 27)

Chapters 28-30

Reading Check

1. Reggie Bradley (Chapter 29)

Short Answer

1. The plaque says “She Loved All,” which is a phrase that appears verbatim in the anonymous letter. (Chapter 28)

2. He shows Candice that the book’s beginning contains most of the clues needed to solve its mystery. He thinks that this is true of the anonymous letter, as well, and he shows Candice how to find the subtly numbered clues in the letter. (Chapter 30)

Chapters 31-34

Reading Check

1. Chip (Chapter 33)

Short Answer

1. Anne tells Candice that they will be heading back to Atlanta soon—possibly as soon as the following weekend. (Chapter 32)

2. She sees a very light-skinned young man in the tennis team yearbook photo and realizes he would have been able to pass as white. After researching a little more, she finds that Reggie Bailey eventually became James Parker. (Chapter 34)

Chapters 35-39

Reading Check

1. Tori (Chapter 36)

Short Answer

1. Coach Douglas plans to give Reggie a new identity as a white man and help him enlist in the army. (Chapter 35)

2. He tells her that Quincy is gay and that he has been thinking about someday starting a summer camp for LGBTQIA children. (Chapter 39)

Chapters 40-45

Reading Check

1. Euler/a Swiss mathematician (Chapter 43)

Short Answer

1. Her father told her that Reggie died in Georgia. (Chapter 40)

2. Siobhan does not understand the bitter person that Reggie has turned into, and she does not want to be with someone who carries around so much hatred. (Chapter 42)

Chapters 46-52

Reading Check

1. The press (Chapter 49)

Short Answer

1. Her father feels that he cannot openly be himself and has to hide an important part of his identity. (Chapter 48)

2. Parker (Bailey) visited Abigail after she was fired for digging up the tennis court. Impressed with her efforts to do the right thing, he decided to give her a second chance at solving the mystery and sent her the bracelet that Siobhan had returned to him. (Chapter 52)