The Matilda Effect
Author(s): Ellie Irving
Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn't win the school science fair, she's devastated - especially as the judges didn't believe she'd come up with her entry on her own. Because she's a girl. When Matilda shares her woes with her Grandma Joss, she's astonished to learn her grandma was once a scientist herself - an astrophysicist, who discovered her very own planet. Trouble is, Grandma Joss was also overlooked - her boss, Professor Smocks, stole her discovery for himself. And he's about to be presented with a Nobel Prize. Matilda concocts a plan. They'll crash the award ceremony and tell everyone the truth! So begins a race against time - and against Matilda's strict mum and dad! - on a journey through Paris, Hamburg and Stockholm, and on which they encounter a famous film star, a circus, and a wanted diamond thief...
Product Information
"Matilda is a great character, a brilliant role model, and the book is a real affirmation of women as scientists" * Parents in Touch * "A warm-hearted, funny, madcap adventure . . . this book is going to get kids very fired up about science" -- Robin Stevens
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 30 June 2017
- : 01 August 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ellie Irving
- : 320