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Gr 5-8 Six seventh graders find themselves working together on a science-fair project on ESP when they all sign up for an elective called "The Mad Science Club." This novel, written as short entries told in alternating voices, is a collaborative effort submitted to their teacher, complete with hypothesis, research, recorded experiments, and personal commentary. Through the students' narratives, readers learn about their families, problems, and relationships with one another. Club members include identica...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Readers of this intriguingly structured novel open its black-and-white marbled notebook cover to find the contents of a science-fair project report on ESP. Written by the seventh-grade students in Mr. Ennis's Mad Science Club, the report contains individually composed sections, purportedly about the group's hypothesis, experiments, and conclusions. Thankfully, the chapters provide a distinctly nondry, nonobjective record of what these six students learn while working on their project, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More