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Reading Zone Year 8RE2

Pencil of Doom - Reading Challenge

Due on Dec 02 25 words minimum
INTRO: 'That pencil is dangerous,' I said.
'Even when you draw something nice, something bad happens.'

When Henry McThrottle tells his fellow students at Northwest Southeast Central School that his pencil is trying to kill him they accuse him of having an overactive imagination. But if that's the case, then why is his pencil still trying to kill him?

This funny book belongs to the series "Schooling Around" by Andy Griffiths.

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CHALLENGE RESPONSE: Name another ordinary object that is lying around this classroom and tell us how you think it could kill you. Submit a 25 word (minimum) response to complete this challenge.
Harry Morse
Harry Morse completed this card.
A thing in a class room that could kill you is a piece of paper because you could cut your wrists with paper cuts. Paper
Jayden Lapsley-Fowle
Jayden Lapsley-Fowle completed this card.
I think something lying around the classroom that could hurt you could be scissors because they are sharp and if you swallowed them they could kill you. 
Angus Upson
Angus Upson completed this card.
When I was younger and I read this book I found it awesome and creative but as I look at it now I find it below my reading level. if there was something lse in the classroom that could kill you it would be a eraser because it could erase you
Joshua P
Joshua P completed this card.
I think that something that is lying around the classroom that could kill you would be a computer because it could really hurt your eyes
Oscar Teather
Oscar Teather completed this card.
When I first read this book I loved it because I thought it was funny and creative however that was when I was extremely young and now I look back on the book and regard it as childish and basic.