The Antimatter Motor (Frank Einstein #1)

Author: Jon Scieszka

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  • : $11.99 AUD
  • : 9781419715068
  • : ABRAMS
  • : Amulet Books
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  • : June 2014
  • : 203mm X 140mm
  • : United States
  • : September 2014
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  • : Jon Scieszka
  • : Paperback
  • : 914
  • : Brian Biggs
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  • : 813.6
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  • : 192
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  • : two-colour illustrations throughout
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Barcode 9781419715068
9781419715068

Description

Frank Einstein loves to tinker, build and take things apart. He loves to observe, hypothesise, experiment and invent. Frank Einstein is a kid genius who loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment with a garage-lab artificially intelligent RoboBug, a lightning storm and a flash of electricity, Frank's inventions--the robots Klink and Klank--suddenly come to life. Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wise-cracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank are a help nonetheless as Frank attempts to perfect his Dark Energy Drive ...that is until Frank's arch nemesis, T. Edison, steals Klink and Klank for his evil doomsday plan! With the help of his friends, Frank sets out to rescue the robots and stop T. Edison from carrying out his twisted plans! Using real science and drawing inspiration from the classic pulp stories of Tom Swift, Jon Scieszka has created a unique world of adventure and science fiction.

Awards

Shortlisted for Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2015.

Author description

Jon Scieszka is one of the most important, iconic and well-loved voices in children's literature. His classic picture books and chapter books have sold millions of copies. Brian Biggs has collaborated with Garth Nix, Cynthia Rylant, and Katherine Applegate, in addition to working on his own picture books in his Everything Goes series.