All The Answers
Readers rate it 3.6 (7 on Hardcover)
Released 2016 · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
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This is a gentle magical-realism story about a girl navigating self-confidence and family relationships through a wish-fulfilling pencil. The core conflict involves an uncomfortable family truth rather than external danger, making it emotionally mature but not dark. The book rewards honesty, courage, and genuine friendship while exploring how easy answers aren't always better than hard truths.
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Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know. Twelve-y... Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know. Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers during a math test that it will answer factual questions. As she continues to use it, the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know.
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- Children's fiction
- Supernatural, fiction
- Family, fiction
- Schools, fiction
- Family life, fiction
- Self-confidence, fiction
- Pencils
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
- Families
- School stories
- Paranormal fiction
- Juvenile fiction
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ISBN 9781681190204 · Bloomsbury USA Childrens