Inquiring middle-graders will get a healthy dose of history and science along with exciting adventure in these chapter books, which are based on Nikola Tesla’s discoveries.
The Tesla Connection – Cavalier Family Adventures (5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
Nikola Tesla is one of the world’s most amazing inventors that most people haven’t heard of. Elina Cavalier and her brother Tipp certainly hadn’t. Not until they found one of Tesla’s machines in the basement of their great-grandfather’s island mansion. They and the world are about to find out just how important one of Tesla’s inventions really is. . .
. . . it’s about time.
A great family adventure full of mystery, intrigue, science and history. The story takes place in New York and spans the generations of the Cavalier family. It follows the adventures through the eyes of Elina and Tipp, a ten and eight year old sister and brother. They are the great-grandchildren of an eccentric multi-millionaire. When their parents must leave them in his care under mysterious circumstances, they find themselves pulled into a tangle of peril they could never have foreseen, and may not even survive! Discover The Tesla Connection today!
Selected as a “Notable Novel” in the category of Middle Grade Reader for the 2013 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Indie Books.
The Tesla Resistance – Cavalier Family Adventures (5/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
Tesla’s inventions have rewritten history. Just how much has been rewritten, Elina and Tipp Cavalier are about to find out. On the run from an unknown force, the Cavalier children find themselves, once again, in over their heads. Can the past be rewritten? Is the future etched in stone? Time will tell.
This is the exciting sequel to The Tesla Connection, which found brother and sister Tipp and Elina Cavalier hurled back in time, after inadvertently switching on a machine of Nikola Tesla’s making. But time travel has consequences.
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