Attention Griffin parents and students - a special guest is visiting Frisco. Neal Shusterman, author of many young adult books has a new book Tesla's Attic (reviewed for Grades 5-7) and is hosting the book release party here in Frisco!
You can pre-order your own copy of Tesla's Attic, coauthored by Eric Elfman, from Barnes & Noble Stonebriar with proceeds benefiting Frisco ISD. All students who pre-order a book will also be entered to win a ticket to the book launch party on February 11th!
To purchase a book (and be entered to win a book launch ticket) complete this order form and return it to the Griffin library (by January 31st) or to Barnes&Noble Stonebriar directly.
The book launch party will be an unforgettable evening with a chance to meet and hear Mr. Shusterman and Mr. Elfman talk about their new book. There will also be a limited number of special addition books available for purchase at the Launch Party for those in attendance.
In addition, Mr. Shusterman will make an appearance at Barnes and Noble on the evening of February 13th at 7 p.m. Frisco ISD is thrilled about having authors like Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman visit our school district and look forward to our students getting excited about his new book!
Tesla’s Attic by Neil Shusterman and Eric Elfman
Book Review from Booklist, January 1, 2014 (Vol. 110, No. 9):
Grades 5-7. Everything changed after the toaster hit Nick on the head. It fell from an attic full of junk in the ramshackle Victorian house in Colorado Springs that 14-year-old Nick, his father, and younger brother have moved into from Tampa. Nick disposes of most of the things in the attic at a garage sale. What begins as a story about an adolescent boy coming to terms with his mother’s death—and his guilt about the house fire that took her—quickly takes a turn for the supernatural and sinister as Nick discovers that the items he sold are the magical inventions of Nikola Tesla. And he must recover them before they fall into the hands of a murderous secret society, the Accelerati. The first entry in a planned trilogy, this collaboration between Shusterman and Elfman tempers the scarier elements of Nick’s quest with deft, humorous writing and plenty of the ordinary adventures of a new kid in school finding his niche. Hand this one to fans of Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles or Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn (2004).
Grades 5-7. Everything changed after the toaster hit Nick on the head. It fell from an attic full of junk in the ramshackle Victorian house in Colorado Springs that 14-year-old Nick, his father, and younger brother have moved into from Tampa. Nick disposes of most of the things in the attic at a garage sale. What begins as a story about an adolescent boy coming to terms with his mother’s death—and his guilt about the house fire that took her—quickly takes a turn for the supernatural and sinister as Nick discovers that the items he sold are the magical inventions of Nikola Tesla. And he must recover them before they fall into the hands of a murderous secret society, the Accelerati. The first entry in a planned trilogy, this collaboration between Shusterman and Elfman tempers the scarier elements of Nick’s quest with deft, humorous writing and plenty of the ordinary adventures of a new kid in school finding his niche. Hand this one to fans of Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles or Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn (2004).
