Jackie Yeager

Kia Krumpet has a dream, but to achieve that dream she needs to get into the Piedmont Inventors Prep School (aka PIPS) which is much easier said than done. She is teamed up with four other girls and sent off to camp Piedmont in order to compete with 49 other teams for a coveted spot at PIPS and prove themselves as one of the best young inventors in the country. Will they make it? I rated this book 5 stars because the world its set in (60 years in the future and teeming with fun sci-fi elements) is engaging and interesting, and the challenge of making it into PIPS keeps the readers interested through the whole novel. I think this is a great book for anyone interested in science to read, and it shows that failure is part of the scientific process and its an obstacle to overcome, not a sign that you should give up.… (altro)

Kia and her team from New York, the Crimson Five, made it through Nationals. Now they are on their way to the Piedmont Global Championships in Quebec. There they will compete against other kids just like them, inventors and problem solvers from around the world.
But when they arrive, the team is presented with a new task that they must solve, and in only two weeks. When lack of inspiration and nasty rumors leave the team with doubts. Kia knows that they will have to do something to bring them all back together before it is too late or they will lose the competition.
This was a very entertaining story about a group pf five very creative and intelligent young people as they compete for the chance to have their invention created.
Kia is the main character of this story, but in reality it follows all five of her team members. These kids are very bright for their age, but they are still young children so they have doubts, and worries and fears.
I loved the ideas and the inventions the Crimson Five and the other teams came up with. I wish I had read book one beforehand in order to know more about their first invention, but despite that fact, I was still able to follow along.
The settings were very imaginative and intriguing. Their tree-houses were very creative, as well as the thinking pool. Though I wish I had been able to know how to get across those jungle gym bars.
All in all, I really enjoyed this book and would give it four out of five stars. I would recommend it to young readers with a love for invention.
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It took me a little bit to get into the story, as I had not read the first one and was trying to figure out the characters and what had happened to lead them to the challenge they were at today. I like the premise of the story, having a group of children working together to create a new invention and compete against teams from around the world. I think I would have liked it more had the author included some of the challenges the team had to solve and how they did it.… (altro)

This book was not scientific enough for me. It is about a group of student inventors going to an international championship. If their idea for an invention wins, it will be developed. Their idea is an ancestry app. There is never any explanation of how it will work and what technology will make their idea possible. There are too many tasks for these students and the tasks have nothing to do with inventions. In order to explain how hover scooters work the author just says it uses hover gel--at least say air pressure here. They have things called Piedmont watches which track the students. That technology already exists--the author did not need to make up something here--our phones and smartwatches do this. The French was terrible. The author did not use any accents and just added le to English words. She also forgot to drop the e in le before a vowel. Much time was spent with the group working on a skit instead of inventing. There was no explanation of why they would do a skit at an invention competition. Finally, there were attempts at meaningful quotes that failed. "Our team is not a team until every team mate is here" was just annoying. Because there was no science in this book, I couldn't tell if the author was going for Sci Fi or Fantasy. Either way, If I can't tell what genre the author is going for, then the book is a failure.… (altro)