The Planet, the Portal, and a Pizza
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
Mystery and adventure collide in this humorous and heartfelt multiverse adventure from beloved, award-winning authors Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin.
Twelve-year-old Piper’s life has always been unusual: her parents are clockmakers whose inventions are anything but ordinary, and she’s the only kid she knows with a robotic talking dog. But her life takes a turn for the truly bizarre when she discovers her parents are in jeopardy and the key to saving them is a book full of strange equations.
When Raisa and Lev travel through the portal to Piper’s world, Raisa can finally prove that her mother’s multiverse project worked. Now, she just needs the book containing her mother’s equations to get back to her world…if only she can find it! As Raisa and Piper adventure to the bounds of the multiverse, they’ll need to discover their place in the world if they ever want to find their way back home.
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Chaotic mad-scientist energy abounds in this unwieldy time-and-space-bending tale about changing friendships and yearning to belong by Baskin (Consider the Octopus) and Mass (The Lost Library). Though Piper's renowned clockmaker parents rarely leave their Rockdale basement lab, and Piper's only friend is the family pet—a talking robot dog named Roody—the math-loving 12-year-old's biggest concern is winning the school robotics competition. That is, until she stumbles across a book filled with puzzling equations that only she can see, and her parents at the same time become trapped in a force field surrounding their house. Meanwhile, sixth grade BFFs Raisa and Lev live undisturbed in an alternate, sci-fi-infused Rockdale until Raisa transports herself and Lev into Piper's world using a strange rectangular device from Raisa's mother's lab. Upon losing the transporter, the besties embark on a frantic search for the object; simultaneously, Piper struggles to free her parents and unravel the mystery of the strange book. Bustling alternating third-person perspectives follow the freewheeling antics and near misses along the white-cued tweens' parallel journeys until converging mysteries force them to cross paths in a somewhat befuddling yet gratifying climax. Ages 8–12. Agents: (for Baskin) Katelyn Detweiler, Jill Grinberg Literary; (for Mass) Holly Frederick, Curtis Brown.
