Emily Calandrelli
ADA Lace and the Impossible Mission
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Engineering & Technology
- Story / Adventure
- Maker / Problem-Solving
Ada Lace and the Impossible Mission begins with a complex scale model of a historic silver mine and turns saving the project into a technology-driven school heist. Ada and Nina must understand models, constraints, and a security system well enough to plan each move, so engineering decisions propel the suspense.
The science inside
- Scientific Discovery & Careers
- Engineering & Design
- Inventions
Your child will meet:
- A scale model preserves chosen proportions while simplifying a larger real system.
- Engineering solutions must satisfy constraints such as time, access, materials, and reliability.
- A security system combines sensors, signals, and responses into a designed system.
- Testing a plan can reveal failure points that are not obvious in the first design.
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Parent effort: Quick discussion
From Emily Calandrelli--Emmy-nominated host of Xploration Outer Space , correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World , and graduate of MIT--comes the fourth novel in a fun illustrated chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology. Third grader and inventor extraordinaire Ada Lace has a new social studies teacher--who loves group projects. While most of the class has constructed regular dioramas with clay and construction paper, Ada, her best friend Nina, and sometimes nemesis Milton have built a complex scale model of an historic silver mine. But when Milton reveals that he added his "old Milton touch" on their project right before turning it in, Ada worries that he has sabotaged their work. In a desperate attempt to save their project, Ada and Nina use their combined creative and technical prowess to perform a heist and break into their teacher's supply closet after school. Do the two friends have what it takes to deceive the school's security system? Or will they get caught trying to pull off this seemingly impossible mission?
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