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All the Answers | Kate Messner
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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...
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neet_reads
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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Can't stop thinking about hot cider now, even though it's 35 degrees Celsius here in Sydney today
@slategreyskies

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LikelyLibrarian
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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Mystery
Couch
Hot Cocoa
Autumn
Fiction
Paperback
Paper
YES! (Except hardbacks. I have a hard time writing in hardbacks.)
Fairytales
#gettingtoknowyou

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youneverarrived
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♦️History
♦️On the couch
♦️Hot cocoa
♦️Autumn
♦️Fiction but I love reading non-fiction too
♦️Both
♦️Paper
♦️I don‘t mind when other people do it but no for me
♦️Definitely fairy tales!

#gettingtoknowyou

Louise Hi, Katie! About to write a postcard to put in the mail to you tomorrow! Looking forward to getting to know you one postcard at a time! 🤓 7y
youneverarrived Hi @Louise thank you I‘ll look out for it 😊😊 7y
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Shawna
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Now I really want to read a paperback mystery on the couch with some hot cocoa 😍

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Mdargusch
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Sorry I couldn‘t decide - I love fiction and non fiction and I like paperback or hardcover equally.
* I never write in my books but I will for #LMPBC

Reviewsbylola Writing in books makes me feel like I‘m in school. 7y
Mdargusch Exactly @Reviewsbylola and I think that might be the last time I did it. 7y
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eanderson
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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📖Mystery
📖Couch
📖Hot Cocoa... Yummm!
📖Autumn. I don't like snow.
📖Fiction
📖I would say either and! I like both!
📖Paper. I don't have any metal ones.
📖NO!
📖Fairy Tales.

#gettingtoknowyou

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Daisey
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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⚔️ history
🛋 on the couch
☕️ cocoa, although I also love cider in the fall
🍂 autumn
📚 fiction, but nonfiction audio
📖 paperback
🔖paper bookmarks
📝 no notes most of the time, but I sometimes annotate
🏰 fairy tales

#quizzesoflitsy #thisorthat #gettingtoknowyou

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ReadingOver50
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#gettingtoknowyou

Most of these questions have a clear winner for me 😄

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Moray_Reads
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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1. Mood (I never stick to plans)
2. I suppose I can bear one terrible book a month
3. Lyra!
4. A tattoo, since I already have one
5. First half, there's still 50 per cent to win me over
@Kalalalatja
#bookishwouldyourather

vivastory I'd get a kick out of your 1 star reviews 😂 7y
Moray_Reads @vivastory there have only been 5 so far this year 7y
Kalalalatja I'm with @vivastory 😂 7y
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Peaceful_Reader
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The world was still turning. Mom had cancer, and it was awful and scary, but there were still dinners to eat and dishes to clear and math tests to take. And this-all this talking about world-famous baked goods and eating and laughing together, just like always-was exactly how they were going to get through it. Ava couldn't imagine any other way.

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HiddenGemBooks
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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When Ava 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.

Ava and her friend Sophie, discover all kinds of uses for the pencil, but it's getting shorter with every sharpening. Sometimes the bravest people are the ones who live without all the answers.

#TBR 📚❤️

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CogsOfEncouragement
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Nice sentiment in our bedtime reading.

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literaticat
All the Answers | Kate Messner
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New in paperback and perfect for middle graders who like a dose of magic in a realistic story. Ava finds a "magic" pencil that'll answer any question. But she becomes kinda addicted to asking questions she shouldn't. And the more she asks, the more she has to sharpen, and the shorter it gets... ?✏️

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