Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge -ESSENTIAL


The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge, 177 pages. Delacorte (Penguin Random),  2018 $17
Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: G; Violence: G.

BUYING ADVISORY: EL -ESSENTIAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: MEDIUM

Jamie’s dad is a famous astronaut which is cool but he is gone a lot and lots of kids are interested in his dad, not him. His dads current mission involves sending out messages to contact possible faraway alien life so he is on the international space station. Jamie is lonely and wanders to a closed observatory, where a rouge scientist is trying to contact alien life a different way. There Jamie accidentally downloads something off the defunct Hubble Telescope (he thinks he is charging his phone). Things get stranger as the app seems to be talking to him. When something goes wrong with the space mission, Jamie will be the only one who can help.

This was a fantastic book, which sat more like slightly depressing realistic fiction than super exciting science fiction. There is a lot of interesting science in it and student readers would be intrigued. This book would actually make a great read-a-loud for a classroom, as there are many real life situations and feelings to discuss, STEM topics, and the possibility of alien life. It was a fully fleshed out world, with many sub characters and plots that made the story feel very real and interesting. I also really liked that it wasn’t overly long, at 177 pages, just right for upper elementary.

Reviewer: Stephanie MLS & Author.

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