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The Jamie Drake Equation

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Jamie Drake’s dad is orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station and Jamie ought to think it’s cool but he just really misses him… Hanging out at his local observatory, Jamie picks up a strange signal on his phone.

That one part when the professor starts explaining complicated math to Jamie and is like, you follow me, yeah? But when something goes wrong with his dad’s mission, Jamie knows it is up to him to save his dad from space and all of it’s dangers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Jamie’s fight for his dad is heartwarming; the pride he has for his family, combined with the way he helps his sister both brought tears to my eyes when reading. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you.

Back on Earth, Jamie is worrying about his Dad and trying to come to terms with the news of his parents’ upcoming divorce. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first.

Things aren't going great for Jamie but when he is out for a walk one night he comes across an old observatory and accidentally discovers something amazing. The author also drops hints about his mother's sacrifices on behalf of his father's career, something that many readers may not have considered before. What are we teaching kids, boys in particular, if we're telling them that they can rely on ALIENS to arrive and save them from having to process their own emotions. This science fiction book features scientific and mathematical concepts, including an explanation of the Fibonacci Sequence and Fibonacci Spiral.

All that being said, I enjoyed The Jamie Drake Equation quite a lot, and would highly recommend it to any science-minded middle schooler.

Young male protagonists who have problems centered around inability to express their emotion and communicate with others having all their problems solved by the arrival of aliens. The blending of the mundane and the fantastical was very interesting, and I actually wish this book were longer.

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