Willy Q's Chocolate Truth Cake

In our 6th grade reading class, 
students read the novel, "All of 
the Above" by Shelley Pearsall 

Making The Cake

It's about a group of middle 
school students who, along with 
their math teacher,decide to try 
and break the world record for 
creating the most paper 
tetrahedrons. 

Measuring Ingredients

One of the students in the 
group,Marcel, works at his 
father's restaurant. Willy Q., 
Marcel's dad, bakes a cake that 
his patron's love because it 
makes them 'tell the truth' when 
they finish eating it.

The Recipe

Our reading class decided to make 
the cake to see if it really does 
make you tell the truth. 

Spreading the Icing

Willy Q. says that people feel 
better after they eat the cake as 
they start to let go of "the 
truth" and talk over their 
problems.

Cutting the Cake

After making our own tetrahedrons
(pyramids with triangular bases)
out of paper, we got to eat our 
chocolate truth cake.

Eating the Cake

We love this book because it has 
a little bit of everything....a 
good story based on real kids, 
recipes that we can try, and fun 
math problems that go along with 
the story.

Boy was that good!!

After eating the cake, we started 
talking about our own everyday 
problems and found that Willy Q's 
Chocolate Truth Cake really 
worked. We felt better all around!