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Ada Lace Sees Red

by Emily Calandrelli
Tamson Weston
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From Emily Calandrelli—host of Xploration Outer Space, correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World, and graduate of MIT—comes the second novel in a brand-new chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology.
Ada Lace is building a new robot! She's determined to beat Milton in the upcoming robotics competition. But she's distracted—Ada finds her dad's art class impossible, while Nina is the star of the class, basking in the glory of being Mr. Lace's star pupil.

When Mr. Lace suggests that Nina put on an art show, Ada becomes jealous and loses her temper. Now Ada isn't speaking to her dad, she's falling behind in art class, and she still doesn't know how to fix her robot. As the competition looms closer, Ada starts to wonder if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.

Will Ada make up with her father in time to test her hypothesis? Or will her hurt feelings leave her seeing red and without a medal at the end of the day?

  • Creators

  • Series

    An Ada Lace Adventure

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 29, 2017

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781481486033
      • File size: 18048 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781481486033
      • File size: 18048 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.1
    • Lexile® Measure: 610
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 15, 2017
      Inventor-in-training Ada Lace discovers that not everyone sees the world as she does. In this second episode of a STEM-focused chapter-book series, third-grader Ada has a problem. She can't do the art assignments involving techniques that use color. Worse, the school art teacher is her father. Failing in school is bad enough; disappointing her artistic parents is worse. Unlike her parents and her good friend Nina, Ada's strengths lie in science and technology. She's been constructing a robot she's named George. Kindly Mr. Peebles, an inventor living nearby, offers help and encouragement. Ada's art problem is a good robotics challenge. Using photoresistors, Ada gives George the capacity to paint paintings for her school assignments and for the audience at an under-12 robotics competition. Meanwhile, seeing that Ada has difficulty distinguishing different color shades, Nina helps her figure out why. Ada and her parents are all relieved to have an explanation for her uncharacteristic school difficulties. Illustrations portray Ada and her family as white, Nina as Southeast Asian, and Mr. Peebles as black. Ada's self-portrait, an important plot point, looks quite different in Kurilla's illustration from what's described in the text, but readers will be drawn in by Ada's real issues and satisfied by the resolution. Gears, robots, color theory, and color blindness mesh nicely in this school-and-friendship tale. (afterword) (Fiction. 7-10)

      COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2018
      With Tamson Weston. This endearing new series champions STEAM concepts as scientist, inventor, and literal-minded third grader Ada Lace investigates a missing dog (�cf2]Case�cf1]) and builds a robot (�cf2]Red�cf1]). Large font, abundant white space, and loose black-and-white illustrations aid young readers. Concluding "Behind the Science" sections support Ada's interests, while her artistic parents and friend lend balance, teaching Ada--and readers--the importance of design.

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.1
  • Lexile® Measure:610
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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