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Every Soul a Star By Wendy Mass Realistic Fiction genre. 322 pages.

Q: Why does Bree think she was switched at birth? A: She is nothing like her family.

Q: What does Bree want to do when she grows up? A: She wants to be a model.

Q: What was a special talent that Jack had? A: He was a good artist.

Q: What did Jack do in his dreams? A: He would fly.

Q: Who were Ally's three star friends she talked to daily? A: Eta, Peggy, and Glenn

Q: What did Bree and Melanie's parents do for a living? A: They were physicists.

Q: How did Ally get her real name, Alpha? A: From the brightest star in any constellation.

Q: Where did Ally and her family live? A: Moon Shadow Campground

Q: Why did Ally's parents leave their jobs to build the campground? A: They knew that a decade later, thousands of people would come to their campground because it was the best place to view the Great Eclipse.

Q: What was a special interest that Kenny had and collected? A: Bugs

Q: What were the 6 Unusuals in the campground? (unusual activities to keep campers occupied) A: 1. Labyrinth, 2. Panning for gold,3. Art House, 4. Sun Garden, 5. Alien Central, 6. Star Garden

Q: What did Ally want to discover? A: She wanted to find a comet.

Q: What did Ally always wear around her neck? A: A meteorite in a pouch that hit her grandfather's ear

Q: What often happened to Melanie at night? A: She had nightmares and screamed.

Q: What was the big news that Bree's parents had? A: They were moving and going to run a campground.

Q: Where did Jack always go for privacy at his house? A: treehouse

Q: How is Ryan related to Ally? A: The grandson of her grandfather's best friend.

Q: How did Ally meet Ryan? A: He always came every summer to the annual Star Party.

Q: Why was Bree disappointed to move to the campground? A: She was very upset to leave her friends and modeling opportunities.

Q: What kind of pictures did Jack draw most frequently? A: He drew pictures of aliens.

Q: What exclamation or expression did Kenny use when he was amazed or shocked or excited? A: “Great Galileo's Ghost!”

Q: What plan did Bree and Ally devise to change their parents' minds about moving? A: They came up with a list of reasons for each set of parents as to why they did not need to move.

Q: Who was given credit for saving Pete when he had his reaction to the food with peanuts in it? A: Football

Q: What does the acronym SETI stand for? A: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

Q: When Ally was giving a presentation about constellations to the campers, what did she tell them they could use to see the stars if they didn't have access to a telescope? A: An empty toilet paper roll

Q: How many constellations are in the sky? A: 88

Q: What was the project Jack helped Mr. Silver do? A: Charting data to help identify an exoplanet

Q: Why did Mr. Silver have to leave? A: His wife was going to have a baby and had to go to the hospital to make sure everything was o.k.

Q: What happened on the first night of Mr. Silver's project? A: There was a huge thunderstorm. The group spent the night in the storage shed.

Q: How did Team Exo celebrate their success in finding data? A: They ate s'mores in the hot springs.

Q: What did Melanie tell everyone to do to keep it from raining on the day of the eclipse? A: To do a Native American dance to guarantee clear skies.

Q: What was the good news about Team Exo's planet data? A: The telescope in Hawaii used their data to confirm that the planet really existed.

Q: Why was the finding of the planet so important? A: They were the youngest people to ever find an exoplanet. Scientists would write about them in a science journal that would be published.