Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Mot..., Jon Scieszka
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Mot..., Jon Scieszka
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Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor

Author: Jon Scieszka

Narrator: Jon Scieszka, Brian Biggs

Unabridged: 2 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2014


Synopsis

Frank Einstein (A), kid genius scientist and inventor, along with Klink (B), a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity, and Klank (C), a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity, create an Antimatter Motor using the three states of matter: solid (D), liquid (E), and gas (F), with plans to win the Midville Science Prize. Which all works fine, until Frank’s classmate and archrival T. Edison shows up!

Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink and Klank—to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his Antimatter Motor . . . until Frank’s archnemesis, T. Edison, steals Klink and Klank for his evil doomsday plan! Using real science, Jon Scieszka has created a unique world of adventure and science fiction—an irresistible chemical reaction for middle-grade listeners.
   Advance praise for Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
“I never thought science could be funny . . . until I read Frank Einstein. It will have kids laughing.”
—Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

“Dear Frank Einstein,
Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978.
Also a levitating skateboard.
Tommy”
—Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

“Kids will love Frank Einstein, because even though he is a new character, he will be instantly recognizable to readers . . . Jon Scieszka is one of the best writers around, and I can’t wait to see what he does with these fun and exciting characters.” —Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Jon Scieszka’s new series has the winning ingredients that link his clever brilliance in story telling with his knowledge of real science, while at the same time the combination of fiction and nonfiction appeals to the full range of the market.” —Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt

About The Author

Jon Scieszka has sold more than 11 million books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, the Time Warp Trio series, Guys Read, Spaceheadz, and most recently, Battle Bunny with Mac Barnett. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendi

Read for my 9 year old's Battle of the Books. I'm not at all the target audience for this book, which I thought was fun but not that memorable. E, on the other hand, loved it. He already requested the next book.......more

Goodreads review by Jaime

Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor by Jon Scieszka is about Frank Einstein and his pal Watson inventing to win the Midville science prize. They fail, then something unexpected happens. This book is interesting because of the diagrams of things like a cow, a toaster, and their inventions, like K......more

Goodreads review by Chris

This book has one Klink the super-intelligent robot, one Klank the somewhat-intelligent robot, and lots of klunky storytelling. Most other reviewers seem to feel it takes science and makes it fun with a zany story; I feel it takes what could have been a fun and zany story and makes it awkwardly peda......more