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Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in this wild, warm-hearted, and hilarious sci-fi debut about a brainy young girl who is recruited for a very special boarding school.Nikola Kross has given up on living in harmony with classmates and exasperated teachers: she prefers dabbling in experimental chemistry to fitting in. But when her life is axially inverted by a gang of extraterrestrials who kidnap her dad and attempt to recruit her into their service, she discovers he's been keeping a world of secrets from her--including the school for geniuses where she's sent for refuge, a place where classes like Practical Quantum Mechanics are the norm and where students use wormholes to commute to class. For Nikola, the hard part isn't school, it's making friends, especially when the student body isn't (entirely) human. But the most puzzling paradox of all is Nikola herself, who has certain abilities that no one understands--abilities that put her whole school in greater danger than she could have imagined.
About the Author
Eliot Sappingfield is the #713,377 bestselling author of A Problematic Paradox, available January 23, 2018 from Putnam Young Readers.
Born in Sioux City, IA, Eliot was a dogged and determined underachiever who later attended The University of Iowa in Iowa city and MSU in Springfield, MO. He and his wife Stephanie have twin daughters.
Eliot has a deep love of all things scientific and geeky, particularly science fiction. His goal with A Problematic Paradox was to share his love of STEM learning and humor with young readers.
