All the Answers

All the Answers

By Kate Messner

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Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 5T4.653802

What if your pencil had all the answers? Would you ace every test? Would you know what your teachers were thinking? When Ava Anderson finds a scratched up pencil she doodles like she would with any other pencil. But when she writes a question in the margin of her math quiz, she hears a clear answer in a voice no one else seems to hear.
With the help of her friend Sophie, Ava figures out that the pencil will answer factual questions only – those with definite right or wrong answers – but won't predict the future. Ava and Sophie discover all kinds of uses for the pencil, and Ava's confidence grows with each answer. But it's getting shorter with every sharpening, and when the pencil reveals a scary truth about Ava's family, she realizes that sometimes the bravest people are the ones who live without all the answers...

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
ISBN-13: 9781681190204
ISBN-10: 1681190206
Published on 4/19/2016
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 272

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One lesson that Ava learns that will help her life is that knowing the future and answers would never help her life which means, knowing everything can hurt somebody's emotion or feelings. For example, Ava asks some negative questions that is relating with her family to the pencil and the pencil replies her questions, the answers made Ava frustrated and thwart, and she realizes that the pencil is causing a lot of problem. So, this means to Ava is that knowing unrevealed things and answers would not make a victorious life for her, which this made Ava pessimistic at first. And also, she realizes her life is so much better with out her extraordinary blue pencil. Consequently, knowing everything and problems would never make a triumphant life for a person. I'd rate this book an "8 out of 10." I would recommend this book because Ava is truthful and honest how she expresses her true emotions, and since the setting of this story is mostly school themed, it relates with students' life. One question that I'd ask to Ava is "How does a pencil affect and change your afterward life?"

When Ava finds a magic pencil that gives you answers whenever you use it to write a question, she and her best friend, Sophie are in for a wild ride. From homework answers to first crushes, this pencil has all the answers.

I love this book but I can be sad at some parts. Her grandpa dies, her mom has breast cancer, her grandma found out she is lactose and tolerance but the book is still pretty good because there are still some great and happy parts!

Ava was going to have a math test. She studied hard, but she knew she would forget everything once she start the test. She snatched a blue #2 pencil and rushed out the door. When she took her test, just as expected, she forgot everything. She wrote down the question for no good reason, and she heard the answer! She tried this a few more times and the pencil told her the answer everytime! Soon, Ava learns the pencil can answer any question, as long as it's a fact, and gets All The Answers.

Ava is a normal girl who is afraid of everything. One day she finds a magical pencil that tells her the answers to specific questions that she writes down. With that pencil her and her best friend Sophie gains power. Ava starts to get curious and has a panic attack of what is happening to her family. Later she finds out something she wish she hadn't. But finding out made her come out of her shell not afraid. I think all readers would really enjoy this book.

I liked this book because I loved the suspense. Ava Anderson finds a magic pencil in her junk drawer. You write a question, and it answers it. I loved the book (All the Answers) and recomend this book.

it was good but not as good as i thought

I had to read this for my school's book club..it's a good book I wish they would developed the characters more..great twist at the end!!

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