3.5
Tesla's Attic
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After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk stored up there. After getting rid of the odd antiques in a garage sale, Nick befriends some local kids--Mitch, Caitlin, and Vincent--and they discover that all of the objects have extraordinary properties. What's more, Nick figures out that the attic is a strange magnetic vortex, which attracts all sorts of trouble. It's as if the attic itself has an intelligence . . . and a purpose.
Ultimately Nick learns that the genius Nikola Tesla placed the items-his last inventions-in the attic as part of a larger plan that he mathematically predicted. Nick and his new friends must retrieve everything that was sold at the garage sale and keep it safe. But the task is fraught with peril-in addition to the dangers inherent in Tesla's mysterious and powerful creations, a secret society of physicists, the Accelerati, is determined to stop Nick and alter destiny to achieve its own devious ends. It's a lot for a guy to handle, especially when he'd much rather fly under the radar as the new kid in town.
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3.5
“To start, I don’t think I’m the target audience for this book. I think if I’d read it in middle or high school I’d have liked it a lot more.
The story is solid and the characters have depth even if they are annoying.
It is also weird how they are all obsessed with kissing and making out. It feels more like a high school age thing than a middle schooler thing. I was intimidated just to hold hands with a boy I liked let alone anything else at that age.”
About Neal Shusterman
(www.nstoryman.com) is the author of dozens of books for young readers, including the bestselling Arc of a Scythe trilogy, National Book Award winner
, the bestselling Unwind and Skinjacker trilogies, and the critically acclaimed
and
. The other two books in the Accelerati Trilogy, which Neal co-wrote with Eric Elfman, are
and
. As a screen and TV writer, Neal created scripts for the
and "Animorphs" TV series, and he wrote the Disney Channel Original Movie
. Neal has two grown sons and he lives with his two daughters in Southern California.
(www.elfmanworld.com) is a screenwriter, a professional writing coach, and the author of several books for children and young adults, including
and
; three X-Files novels; and two books of scary short stories,
and
. He has sold screenplays to Interscope, Walden Media, Revolution, and Universal Studios. He lives in Brandywine Canyon, California with his wife and son.
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