Emmet's Storm

by Ann Rubino

Overview

A 2017 Best STEM Book! Emmet Roche is an odd ball, a whippersnapper, a genius. His failed science experiments caused such ruckus he's being shipped out to the country school. Nobody there likes or understands him. When the blizzard of 1888 hits, snowing sideways, will anyone listen to his ideas about the flame color in the stove? And the headaches and dizziness? Will they take his advice before it's too late?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150971004
Publisher:	Catree.com
Publication date:	03/31/2015
Series:	The Floyd County Chronicles , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Ann Rubino is the author of "Le Forestiere" in the anthology, "Italian Women in Chicago"; "Peppino, Good as Bread", an intermediate-grade novel of World War II in Italy, and its sequel "Peppino and the Streets of Gold". As a child Ann Rubino read every book she could get her hands on, her favorites being the little orange biographies her mother gave her every Christmas. That began her lifelong love of learning. She gathered it first for herself, then to share with her children, and later to share with her students and other teachers. During those years she realized that many modern children are drawn to adventure, but often of a very fictional sort. It is monsters over inventors, superheroes over real ones. She wants to change that.

While Ann was teaching professionally, she won the OHAUS Award for innovations in science teaching; took part in the creation of the New Generation Science Standards; sat on the review board of Science & Children magazine; and worked as a consultant for the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago. She holds her MT(ASCP), B.A.Ed., and M.S. Ed. and an Endorsement in Gifted Education. Her last teaching assignment was as adjunct at Lewis University, training future teachers in methods of science teaching. Once retired, she reviewed many children's books for the Recommends division of Science & Children and continued her work on the review board.

Editorial Reviews

"Filled with historical accuracy and heartwarming characters,
this engaging story is imbedded with science concepts. It
transports the reader back to a time when children had freedom
and time to act on their natural curiosity in order to learn how
the world works."

Columnist - NSTA Reports National Science Teachers Association - Judy McKee

"Filled with historical accuracy and heartwarming characters,
this engaging story is imbedded with science concepts. It
transports the reader back to a time when children had freedom
and time to act on their natural curiosity in order to learn how
the world works."

Judy McKee

"Some 40 years after Edison's own birth, Emmet Roche typifies
all the characteristics of a young Thomas Edison himself. As
Emmet evolves from the atypical boy who is only marginally
tolerated in small town Iowa, to becoming the hero of the day,
this is truly an inspiring story every young boy or girl would
love to read. I can only imagine how many youthful minds
Emmet Roche may lead down the path of scientific
observation."

Adjunct Instructor-Lewis University Retired Middle School Science Teacher - Peter Scariano

"Some 40 years after Edison's own birth, Emmet Roche typifies
all the characteristics of a young Thomas Edison himself. As
Emmet evolves from the atypical boy who is only marginally
tolerated in small town Iowa, to becoming the hero of the day,
this is truly an inspiring story every young boy or girl would
love to read. I can only imagine how many youthful minds
Emmet Roche may lead down the path of scientific
observation."

Peter Scariano

"Everywhere he looks, he sees a puzzle to be solved or an idea to be tested. And he'll do anything to do so, no matter how messy--or downright dangerous--it gets. ...Truly dedicated young scientists will particularly enjoy the gallery of real-life patent diagrams at the end, including one by Thomas Edison."

Kirkus Reviews