New (and old) middle grade fiction August 2015
I've been reading some middle grade fiction in my after school hours this week. I found a couple of terrific new ones and an old that I missed when it came out. The one I missed is called "Tesla's Attic" by Neil Shusterman and Eric Elfman. This is the most fun science fiction I've read in quite some time. It's about a boy named Nick who's had a big traumatic loss and so his family has moved across country. He didn't want to move but he's putting on a brave game face for his dad and his little brother. They are moving into an elderly relative's house (she died before the story starts and that's not the big loss) and so they have a bit of cleaning up and cleaning out to do. Nick claims the attic as his space and wow, is there a lot of junk in the attic. Nick decides to have a garage sale to clean things out and make a little extra money and that's when the weird stuff starts. Nick finds a lamp and when he turns it on, people see...