Pencil of Doom!
The 'Pencil of Doom!' Test.
1. Henry's scary new pencil has an eraser in the shape of a: (a) smiley face (b) love heart (c) skull.
2. The pencil is called a 'pencil of doom' because: (a) it used to belong to a boy called Doom (b) it has a very sharp tip (c) whenever it's used, somebody gets hurt.
3. Henry tries to destroy the pencil by: (a) eating it (b) kissing it (c) crushing it.
4. Henry's enemy, Clive Durkin, uses the pencil to draw Henry and his friends being buried under an avalanche of: (a) rose petals (b) puppies (c) snow.
5. 'Pencil of Doom!' is the name of: (a) a horror movie (b) a computer game (c) a very funny book about a very dangerous pencil.
ANSWERS: The answers to these questions - and many more - are contained between the covers of Pencil of Doom! - a very funny book about a very dangerous pencil.
Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Younger Readers (2009)
About the Schooling Around Series
Books in series order
- 1.Treasure Fever!(2008)
- 2.Pencil of Doom!(2008)
- 3.Mascot Madness!(2009)
- 4.Robot Riot!(2009)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
A set of four novels chronicling the amazing goings on at Northwest Southeast Central School. Imagine a novel-length treatment of one of the short stories from the Just! series and you're getting warm. Imagine a funny, charming and exciting novel set in a most unusual school... well you don't have to imagine it because Schooling Around is already here!
Sure to appeal to both confident and emerging readers of all ages, they are also ideal for both parents and classroom teachers to read aloud.