1. The Phantom Tollbooth
Chapter 9 Vocabulary

2. Scenic Route
A longer, but more beautiful way to go

3. contrary
The opposite of what is said would happen

4. Suspended in mid-air
floating

5. Contradict
Disagree with someone

6. Think about this:
Milo explained to the boy that he started on the ground and grew up.
“What a silly system.” The boy laughed. “Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you’re fifteen things won’t look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.”

7. inconvenient
Not working out well; not easy to work with

8. Point of view
How you see things