alltheanswers

All The Answers, by Anne C. LeMieux ISBN: 0380977710 c2000 149 pages R.L.-5.3 Points-6

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 1-2 (about the solitaire game determining his luck for the day) p. 24 p. 57 p. 116

Summary: Jason Hodges is in the eighth grade. He has a father who expects him to do well in school and be neat and organized at home. When Jason doesn’t live up to his father’s expectations, life is rough on the home front. Jason’s mother isn’t really a factor in the book. She tries to stay out of any situation where Jason’s father is upset. Jason is in love with a new girl that attends school, but it just so happens that this new girl has a twin brother who doesn’t like Jason. Philip, Phelicia’s brother, makes life miserable for Jason in many ways, and we find out that their father is bullying Jason’s father around at work. Many things happen in the book that force Jason, and his father, to take a different view on life.

YA fiction--fathers and sons, school, conduct

©Jennifer Lang-WDMS-2001