Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Frank Einstein is a sixth-grade inventor working out of his grandpa Al's repair shop in Midville. Frank is trying to build a self-aware robot to win the school science fair and earn enough money to save the shop from foreclosure. His first two attempts, Klink and Klank, accidentally assemble themselves during a lightning storm and turn out to have very different personalities. Then T. Edison, Frank's billionaire-kid rival, decides he wants the antimatter motor for himself. Jon Scieszka and illustrator Brian Biggs pack every chapter with diagrams, doodles, and explainer pages, launching a six-book series that ran from 2014 to 2017.
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A sixth-grade inventor and his two accidentally self-aware robots race a billionaire-kid rival to win the science fair and save his grandpa's repair shop.
Jon Scieszka has written six Frank Einstein middle-grade novels. The series is complete and follows the inventor protagonist Frank Einstein and his robot friends through different scientific themes.
Frank Einstein is middle grade, recommended for readers 8 to 12. The science-themed humor and illustrations make it especially popular with kids interested in STEM and reluctant readers.
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor was written by Jon Scieszka, published in 2014 by Heyne Verlag.
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor is 179 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor is a standalone novel by Jon Scieszka, not part of a series.
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.