I was a Teenage Science Project

"Come down to the basement," Kazmierski said to me in a way that brooked no argument. She turned on the light at the top of the stairs. "Sure," I told her. "But what's down there?" "Don't worry," she answered. "You won't remember a thing." Ninth grader Irene Mummalo enters high school with all the faith and confidence in the world, only to run up against kooky, devious, sadistic, and downright dangerous girl-turned-mad-scientist Ethel Kazmierski who "makes" friends her own way and let there be no two ways about it...How Irene, as well as her circle of friends that include Hannibal and Cannibal, Mimsy and Lorrie Jean manage to overcome the evil powers of Kazmierski, her magician parents, Frankensteinian dog, and spontaneously combustible brother who's trapped inside Irene's clock radio, forms the basis for I Was a Teenage Science Project, a novel of seventeen chapters for middle-grade readers.