Wilson's ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact." —Boston Globe

The eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang—a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms.

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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a dragon with a problem.

Frankie was a completely normal pet goldfish ...until Tom's evil-scientist big brother Mark tried to murder him with toxic gunge! Luckily Tom and his best friend Pradeep shocked Frankie back to life with a battery, and he's been their zombie-fishy friend ever since. On a trip to the aquarium, something fishy starts going on. Something that almost certainly involves evil older brothers, a vampire kitten, a psychic octopus and a plot to take over the...

When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.

Mad scientist Frannie K. Stein, determined to be elected class president, uses her Atomic Combiner to create a suit that makes her seem to be whatever a voter wants her to be, but the suit has plans of its own.

Tired of continually having his feelings hurt by popular students and bullies, fifth-grader Nathan agrees to try an experimental formula, Hurt-Be-Gone, and becomes a half-dead zombie, a condition which, he soon discovers, has some real advantages.

'Kill us all' are the cryptic, chilling words that send Commander Gray Pierce on a search for ancient answers with the help of a very old map when a horrific disease kills every living person, plant, animal, and bacteria within a 50-mile radius of an isolated military research station. And the virus is just getting started.

Reduced to miniature size, Franny travels through her pet dog's nostril and into his stomach.

Part philosophical ponderings on humanity's relationship to the universe, part scientific extrapolation on what technological advancement might bring to that understanding, this long essay, first published in Century Illustrated Magazine in June 1900, is yet another example of the genius of Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943), the revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nikola...