{My Thoughts} – Ava is a twelve year-old worry wort. She lets everything get the best of her and you learn to love that about her throughout this book and the way that it’s been written. She lives with her mom, dad, grandma, brother Marcus and sister Emma. She also has a best friend named Sophie.

One day when Ava is running late for school and needs a pencil, she grabs one out of the junk drawer and heads to school. When she starts her math test that day she discovers that the someone is telling her the answers to the questions that she isn’t sure about.

Eventually she learns that it was the pencil that was telling her this stuff and then she shares her secret with Sophie. Sophie and her both decide to use the pencil to find out all sorts of things, but there is a limit to the knowledge that they can obtain from the pencil. Also, it ends up causing a lot of issues for Ava, the worry wort.

As the book progresses, Ava goes through a lot of difficult times. She has to do an obstacle course on a school field trip that terrifies her, but not as much as the news she is waiting to hear about concerning her mother and grandpa. As the book comes to a close she has to figure out if the pencil is worth all the trouble that it causes or if she should let it go.

I don’t know how I would respond if I were in Ava’s shoes. I know that a lot she had to go through in the book was hard and difficult, but I also know that knowing everything isn’t helpful either. When she learns all the remaining secrets of the pencil everything changes for her, for the better I would like to think, but that isn’t the best part, the best part is…. Well you have to read the book to figure that out. I have parts in the book that I think are better then others, and more so parts that are really emotional and made me want to cry, and then some made me laugh while others just made me think. What would I do if I were in Ava’s shoes?

I would like to think that children reading this book, would be able to think with an open mind. It isn’t always easy to deal with a lot of bad, but it is also a part of life. Where there is bad things, some good will rise above it, one can only hope the good will surface before that bad can cause more heartache and worry.

This book is ideal for any child that loves to ask what if questions, can’t handle dealing with a lot of stress, constantly worries about everything and has problems accepting every day things that occur around them. ( )

{My Thoughts} – Ava is a twelve year-old worry wort. She lets everything get the best of her and you learn to love that about her throughout this book and the way that it’s been written. She lives with her mom, dad, grandma, brother Marcus and sister Emma. She also has a best friend named Sophie.

One day when Ava is running late for school and needs a pencil, she grabs one out of the junk drawer and heads to school. When she starts her math test that day she discovers that the someone is telling her the answers to the questions that she isn’t sure about.

Eventually she learns that it was the pencil that was telling her this stuff and then she shares her secret with Sophie. Sophie and her both decide to use the pencil to find out all sorts of things, but there is a limit to the knowledge that they can obtain from the pencil. Also, it ends up causing a lot of issues for Ava, the worry wort.

As the book progresses, Ava goes through a lot of difficult times. She has to do an obstacle course on a school field trip that terrifies her, but not as much as the news she is waiting to hear about concerning her mother and grandpa. As the book comes to a close she has to figure out if the pencil is worth all the trouble that it causes or if she should let it go.

I don’t know how I would respond if I were in Ava’s shoes. I know that a lot she had to go through in the book was hard and difficult, but I also know that knowing everything isn’t helpful either. When she learns all the remaining secrets of the pencil everything changes for her, for the better I would like to think, but that isn’t the best part, the best part is…. Well you have to read the book to figure that out. I have parts in the book that I think are better then others, and more so parts that are really emotional and made me want to cry, and then some made me laugh while others just made me think. What would I do if I were in Ava’s shoes?

I would like to think that children reading this book, would be able to think with an open mind. It isn’t always easy to deal with a lot of bad, but it is also a part of life. Where there is bad things, some good will rise above it, one can only hope the good will surface before that bad can cause more heartache and worry.

This book is ideal for any child that loves to ask what if questions, can’t handle dealing with a lot of stress, constantly worries about everything and has problems accepting every day things that occur around them. ( )

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Ava is a worrier, and her anxiety keeps her from doing things like the Adventure Ropes Course field trip and jazz band tryouts - usually. But when Ava and her best friend Sophie discover that a pencil from Ava's family's junk drawer can give them answers to almost any question they write, Ava finds that the answers to her questions only create more questions - and now she has even bigger worries, like her Grandpa's health, and what's wrong with Gram, and whether her parents will get a divorce, and more. Finally, Ava has to face her smaller fears in order to address her bigger ones, and her family tackles some problems together. The magic pencil has a surprising reveal of its own, as well.

Quotes

So much was out of your hands, and if you were a worrying kind of person, that just made you worry more. (61)

Maybe Sophie was upset but not mad. Sometimes, Ava couldn't tell the difference. She just assumed that whenever anybody wasn't happy, it was her fault. (133)

Certain kinds of information just made you worried and sad....Sometimes, it was better not to know. (212)

"When I was a reference librarian, it was my job to help people find answers to questions when answers were available. But not all questions have that kind of solution, and it's not up to a librarian to be making up answers that don't exist." (Grandma Marion, 218)

Like every answer gave her more questions to worry about. (244) ( )