The blending of the mundane and the fantastical was very interesting, and I actually wish this book were longer. With family drama and alien intrigue, this captures both the wonder of space and the complexity of growing up. Thereafter, we’re launched into space with Jamie’s dad, while recognising his grief at sharing and thereafter seeming to lose his father so publicly. As such, I can see children being enthralled by concepts such as the Fibonacci Sequence and Drake’s Equation. It describes how many alien civilizations there are in our Milky Way Galaxy which we can possibly communicate with.

As an adult I enjoyed spotting the facts in a work of fiction, it helped the plausability of the story. I think I just like when adults in books are good examples to kids and also don't treat younger people like they're stupid. There is respect for his readers, for as in The Many Worlds of Albie Bright the story is captivating, realistic and yet so imaginative. Shortlisted for the North Somerset Teachers' Book Award, the Haringey Children's Book Award and the Bolton Children's Fiction Award. I would use this book with year 4 or year 5 children as a read-aloud story or to use for a literacy unit.What are we teaching kids, boys in particular, if we're telling them that they can rely on ALIENS to arrive and save them from having to process their own emotions. You, therefore, need to know the class well before using this book and consider whether it is appropriate for the individuals within the class.

An exciting, adventure story… The Jamie Drake Equation’ is one of those great books that offers a humorous, intelligent, warm and gripping read. You guys are such a force for good and I am a passionate supporter of Indie booksellers, so I'm so happy this worked out well (I'd love to know how many books were sold if you have it to hand - it felt like quite a lot! That one part when the professor starts explaining complicated math to Jamie and is like, you follow me, yeah? Though it sounds like an abstract mathematical concept, we see the examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature.This book introduces physics and maths to a child audience through a really exciting and moving story. We follow him on an adventure as he tries to discover the source of a strange application that is downloaded onto his phone. From the opening chapters wherein Jamie is threatened by maths equation homework, to unconventional interludes with Minty, a surprise encounter with Dr Foster and the dazzling, stars-in-the eyes conclusion, this book is meteor mighty. I probably learned more from this 170-ish-page kids' book than I did in four years of high school science. The ending tugged on heartstrings and the depiction of a not-so-perfect family life was honest and thought-provoking.

I was also hoping for more of a friendship to develop between Minty and Jamie, but she really didn't serve much purpose in the story at all. The story moves along at a good pace keeping the reader engaged and eager to find out what happens next. He plugs his phone into her laptop and downloads a mysterious app that may or may not be of alien origin. It is definitely a story that will pull at your heart strings, but is also one that will set your thirst for learning more about space off too! While doing his homework at the observation lab one night, Jamie's phone picks up a up a weird signal.It also tells a more personal story of Jamie and an almost behind the scenes look at the life of an astronaut’s family, it isn’t all exciting, it is also terrifying and causes Jamie to feel resentful that he has to share his dad with everyone else and hurt that he’d rather be in space than at home. We don't get to know him beyond some basic stuff, such as his relationship with his dad and the fact that he's bad at math.

Jamie decides to explore the abandoned observatory which his dad used to visit and there he finds a lot more than just a telescope. What’s more, I’m a bit of a science and maths geek, so when I saw this book at the local library I couldn’t resist picking it up. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. T. There is some real science and maths in here, too (Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, how astronauts got to the toilet) as well as some big sci-fi ideas.