Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown
  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781594748660
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 264
  • RRP: $24.99

Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown

A Mystery with Sun-Powered Gadgets You Can Build Yourself

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Another fast-paced mystery in the popular Nick and Tesla series, featuring a new case to crack and all-new gadgets that kids can build themselves!

Kid inventors Nick and Tesla Holt have outsmarted crooks, spies, and kidnappers. Now they have to crack their biggest mystery yet: Where the heck are their parents? To outwit the criminal mastermind who’s holding their parents hostage, the twins will need all their brainpower, the help of their eccentric Uncle Newt, and an assortment of homemade solar gadgets. Will the Holt family be reunited at last? Or will a hijacked solar satellite beam down doom from the skies? The adventure includes instructions for creating a solar-powered hot-dog cooker, alarm, secret listening device, and model car, plus a nighttime signal cannon that fires illuminated ping-pong balls.
  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781594748660
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 264
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown

  • "A strong start to the series...fearless Tesla and sensitive Nick are a tenacious and entertaining team..."--Publishers Weekly
  • "Plenty of appeal for middle-grade and middle school readers.­"--Kirkus
  • "Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab has the perfect formula: Mega-watts of funny writing plus giga-hertz of hands-on science equals fun to the billionth power!"--Chris Grabenstein, New York Times best selling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
  • "What more could young readers possibly want? 'Nick & Tesla' is a great book that will keep your kids enthralled with its intriguing story -- and inspire them with its clever science experiments." --Stuart Gibbs, Edgar-nominated author of Spy School and Belly Up

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