DEAR MATH, WE'RE NOT FRIENDS

From the Questioneers series , Vol. 2 by Andrea Beaty ; illustrated by David Roberts ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 16, 2019 Adventure, humor, and smart, likable characters make for a winning chapter book. Ada Twist’s incessant stream of questions leads to answers that help solve a neighborhood crisis. Ada conducts experiments at home to answer questions such as, why does Mom’s coffee smell stronger than Dad’s coffee? Each answer leads to another question, another hypothesis, and another experiment, which is how she goes from collecting data on backyard birds for a citizen-science project to helping Rosie Revere figure out how to get her uncle Ned down from the sky, where his helium-filled “perilous pants” are keeping him afloat. The Questioneers—Rosie the engineer, Iggy Peck the architect, and Ada the scientist—work together, asking questions like scientists. Armed with knowledge (of molecules and air pressure, force and temperature) but more importantly, with curiosity, Ada works out a solution. Ada is a recognizable, three-dimensional girl in this delightfully silly chapter book: tirelessly curious and determined yet easily excited and still learning to express herself. If science concep...