The Unknowns
Published on 1. April 2009
Book
Hardback
259 pages
978-0-8109-7991-8 (ISBN)
Description
In a trailer park called Adjacent, next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish. Diaphanta, a chubby red-headed girl known by everyone as Lady Di and her best friend 'Tamir Something Something Mohammed al-Karkhi' who everyone simply calls Tom Jones barely notice the disappearances until their maths tutor, Mrs. Clarke, is abducted too. Mrs. Clarke has left them clues, in the form of maths equations, that lead them all over the trailer park, through hidden tunnels under 'Mount Trashmore' and into the Folsom Energy Plant itself, where Lady Di and Tom Jones and a gang of other misfits uncover the sordid truth about what's really happening there. A reluctant community will have to come together to save itself before it's too late.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8109-7991-8 (9780810979918)
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08/2011
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Person
Benedict Carey is a reporter who has written about medicine and science for magazines and newspapers. He graduated (barely and after five years) from a large midwestern university, astonished to learn that he had a degree in maths. Mr. Carey now works as a science reporter for the New York Times.