The Matilda Effect

Resumen del libro

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn't win the school science fair, she's devastated - especially as the judges didn't believe she'd come up with her entry on her own.

Because she's a girl. When Matilda shares her woes with her Grandma Joss, she's astonished to learn her grandma was once a scientist herself - an astrophysicist, who discovered her very own planet. Trouble is, Grandma Joss was also overlooked - her boss, Professor Smocks, stole her discovery for himself.

And he's about to be presented with a Nobel Prize. Matilda concocts a plan. They'll crash the award ceremony and tell everyone the truth! So begins a race against time - and against Matilda's strict mum and dad! - on a journey through Paris, Hamburg and Stockholm, and on which they encounter a famous film star, a circus, and a wanted diamond thief...

Biografía del autor

Ellie Irving est née à Bristol (Royaume-Uni) et a grandi dans une famille de mordus de lecture. Elle a toujours adoré écrire, et encore plus après que ses parents lui ont offert une machine à écrire Petite Super International pour le Noël de ses sept ans. Après des études en audiovisuel à l'université de Leeds, Ellie a travaillé sur de nombreuses émissions de décoration et d'aménagement de jardins. <br>Puis elle a décidé de reprendre des études en écriture de scénario. Aujourd'hui, elle écrit des scénarios, développe des idées pour la télévision et est auteure de romans jeunesse !