All Better Now

Every one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about All Better Now. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.

1. 1

   Early in the book

   In what book is a nineteen-year-old interviewed for a mysterious internship while wearing an astronaut's space suit?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Morgan Willmon-Wu arrives at Dame Glynis Havilland's English estate and is made to wear a real space suit built to her exact measurements. The Dame has been exposed to Crown Royale, so the suit that was meant to protect the Dame now protects Morgan instead.

2. 2

   First half

   In what book does a newly recovered boy realize an empty Oreo wrapper is blue?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Sorting trash at the pier, Rón, who has blue-cone deficiency, holds up an Oreo wrapper and tells Mariel it is blue. He confides that ever since recovering from Crown Royale he can see the color, and a Ruffles bag soon shows him another shade.

3. 3

   First half

   In what book does a lab tech thinking about his Dungeons & Dragons campaign find only one blood vial unbroken?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Mariel's blood sample is sent off with two others, and a string of mishaps on the way to the lab breaks two of the three vials. The tech who opens the crate just wants to get home to his game, and the lone survivor is labeled Mariel Mudroch, a lucky roll of the dice.

4. 4

   Second half

   In what book does a shoeless man in an alcove refuse help from two unmasked strangers?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Around the corner from the saxophonist, Mariel is the one who approaches the man, and he tells them to get away because they have no masks. She yanks Rón back before he can lean into the man's airspace, tells him he has no right to steal the man's choice, and invents her consent rule on the spot.

5. 5

   Second half

   In what book does a doctor write a license plate on a rich father's palm?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Zee refuses to break the promise he made to Tiburón, but Dr. Zoya Pirmal made no such oath. She asks Blas Escobedo for ventilators, supplies and medications donated anonymously, then explains why her news matters, which is that the two teens are driving her car.

6. 6

   Near the end

   In what book is a decommissioned attack submarine suspended twenty feet above a forest floor?

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   All Better Now by Neal Shusterman

   Jarrick Javins bought the USS Triton from the Navy to celebrate reaching a hundred billion dollars, satisfying two childhood loves at once, tree houses and submarines. Rón finds the four-hundred-fifty-foot hull and its two huge propellers held up among sugar maples and white oaks by steel beams disguised as trees, with a spiral staircase cut into its belly.