Book: Tesla's Attic

 Book: Tesla's Attic

Author: Neal Shusterman

Pages: 272

This is my 94th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

After their home burns down, 14 year old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited.  When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster.  That's just the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk stored up there.  After getting rid of the odd antiques in a garage sale, Nick befriends some local kids - Mitch, Caitlin, and Vincent - and they discovered that all of the objects have extraordinary properties.  What's more, Nick figures out that the attic is a strange magnetic vortex, which attracts all sorts of trouble.  It's as if the attic itself has an intelligence - and a purpose.  Ultimately Nick learns that the genius Nikola Tesla places the items-his last inventions - in the attic as part of a larger plan that he mathematically predicted.  Nick and his new friends must retrieve everything that was sold at the garage sale and keep it safe.  But the task is fraught with peril-in addition to the dnagers inherent in Tesla's mysteriou and powerful creations, a secret society of physicists, the Accelerati, is detemined to stop Nick and alter desitny to achieve its own devious ends.  It's a lot for a guy to handle, especially when he'd much rather fly under the radar as the new kid in town.

This was a pretty good book. It is definitley a middle grade book, but I have a lot of Shusterman books on my shelf, so I figured I would try these.  It is the first book of a trilogy.  It is well written with a nice mystery that keeps you guessing through the whole book.  I liked all of the characters, and the story kept a good pace.  I am looking forward to reading the next one.

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