Epic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp

by Lamar Giles (Author) Morgan Bissant (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

From Edgar Award nominee and WNDB cofounder Lamar Giles, this middle grade adventure stars the Epic Ellison twins as they race to solve the mystery of Cosmos Camp for young geniuses in a stand-alone companion to the Legendary Alston Boys series.

School's out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge... their first summer apart! Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies with their eyes on the stars. Meanwhile, Wiki is looking forward to her first summer on her own, running the family corn stand and outclassing Otto and Sheed Alston.

But the night before Leen's departure, the twins find out that Wiki has also been accepted into the same camp (even though she didn't apply). And they are... not thrilled. This summer was never supposed to be a Twin Thing! The situation soon goes from bad to worse--because the Ellisons haven't been invited just to participate in the program.

They're there to solve a mystery.

Someone (or something) has been tampering with the company's upcoming big-deal rocket launch. Now, the sisters are undercover, dealing with hyper-competitive campers by day and trying to stop the mysterious saboteur by night.All is not as it seems at PeteyTech. There are bigger, badder forces at play than the girls could've imagined. And if Wiki and Leen don't get their act together fast, their first epic adventure away from Logan County could end up an epic fail... for the entire world.

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Kirkus

An imaginative, thrilling story exploring family and team dynamics through the lens of invention.

ALA/Booklist

Leen and Wiki make a great team, and watching them in action as they work on their own relationship while simultaneously averting cosmic catastrophe juices up the emotional resonance as well as the action in this epic exploit.

Review quotes

[A] clever novel... Giles sets the stage for boundless aspiration. — New York Times Book Review

Lamar Giles
Lamar Giles is an Edgar Award-nominated author and has published three young adult novels. He is the co-founder of #WeNeedDiverse books and has edited two #WNDB anthologies, including 2018's Fresh Ink.

www.lrgiles.com
Twitter: @LRGiles
Instagram: @LamarGiles
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780358423379
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Versify
Publication date
May 09, 2023
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
JUV014000 - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
JUV041010 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Aviation
JUV059000 - Juvenile Fiction | Dystopian
JUV064000 - Juvenile Fiction | Time Travel
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
JUV053020 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction | Space Exploration
JUV036010 - Juvenile Fiction | Technology | Astronauts & Space
Library of Congress categories
Mystery and detective stories
Detective and mystery stories
Sisters
Detective and mystery fiction
Missing persons
Twins
Inventors
Gifted persons
Science camps

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