The Jamie Drake Equation

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Jamie's Dad is going to miss his birthday, but it isn't really his fault as he's an astronaut on the International Space Station! They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! I would use this book with year 4 or year 5 children as a read-aloud story or to use for a literacy unit. Though it sounds like an abstract mathematical concept, we see the examples of Fibonacci numbers in nature. However, as I've got older I've enjoyed reading fiction and non-fiction books that explore scientific concepts.

While doing his homework at the observation lab one night, Jamie's phone picks up a up a weird signal.I wish I had this book to explain some of the grittier details of astronomy to me when I was a freshman in college. Now some of the concepts introduced are quite complex, but Edge’s narrative presents these in an easy to understand manner. They're currently locked in a battle for who will borrow the book first to reread, and when voting for our next class book, the only option they were interested in was something by Christopher Edge. 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!

The author blended the “just right” amount of science into his story to make an exciting and educational book. Things take a strange turn as he visits an old observatory and accidentally picks up a strange signal on his phone.

Just as his father performs the spacewalk, the giant solar storm comes, trapping the astronaut outside the Station. All that being said, I enjoyed The Jamie Drake Equation quite a lot, and would highly recommend it to any science-minded middle schooler.