Ada Lace Sees Red

By: Emily Calandrelli

Narrated by: Emily Calandrelli

From Emily Calandrelli—host of Xploration Outer Space, correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World, and graduate of MIT—comes the second novel in a brand-new chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology.

Ada Lace is building a new robot! She’s determined to beat Milton in the upcoming robotics competition. But she’s distracted—Ada finds her dad’s art class impossible, while Nina is the star of the class, basking in the glory of being Mr. Lace’s star pupil.

When Mr. Lace suggests that Nina put on an art show, Ada becomes jealous and loses her temper. Now Ada isn’t speaking to her dad, she’s falling behind in art class, and she still doesn’t know how to fix her robot. As the competition looms closer, Ada starts to wonder if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.

Will Ada make up with her father in time to test her hypothesis? Or will her hurt feelings leave her seeing red and without a medal at the end of the day?

Wonderful Story

Emily is one of my daughters hero’s. For young readers, who are inclined toward the sciences, this young heroine of STEM, shows a side of life for little girls that allows them to see themselves in a regular life story of a girl. This is not the drama induced popularity contests or the angst ridden mean kid, this is a wholesome family dynamic with support of the children in the story. This hits the same story vein as Ramona Quimby, funny and serious moments, but not too heavy. My youngest loves hearing Emily (the author) read. She misses her show, and this fills the void. We can’t wait to hear the next story. This is a great book for little scientist. We also love how the ending goes over key topics within the subject matter. All around Bravo!

dull and annoying

My kid is an avid reader and does not like these books, and I get why They try too hard to shoehorn in lessons, and the plot and characters are dull and stilted. and the narration is inauthentic and grating. I don't know why they're so highly rated, but there's much better options.