Publisher Description
The next installment of Bill Nye's New York Times bestselling Jack and the Geniuses series. Famed inventor Henry "Hank" Witherspoon has gone missing, and it's up to Jack and his brilliant siblings, Ava and Matt, to find him. At Hank's ransacked lab, the siblings discover clues to the project he's been working on-a new way to generate and store electricity, inspired by the electric eels of the Amazon. The kids travel deep into the Amazon jungle, following a series of clues Hank has left. Relying on genius, cunning, and new technology, the kids overcome strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea.
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About the Authors
Bill Nye is
a scientist, engineer, comedian, and inventor. He has a BS in mechanical engineering
from Cornell University where he studied under Carl Sagan, and worked on the
747 as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his much-loved Emmy
award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill
Nye the Science Guy. He holds three honorary doctorate degrees from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins, and teaches
at Cornell regularly as a visiting professor.
Gregory Mone is the author of several bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction for both children and adults and is a coauthor of books with Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson. A graduate of Harvard College, he is a contributing editor at Popular Science and an award-winning science writer.