Science Comics: Electricity: Energy in Action

by Andy Hirsch

Overview

Get a charge out of Electricity, a new edition to the Science Comics series!

Giant monsters are on the warpath, and it’s Menlo the mech’s job to protect the city! But when this metal marvel is shut down by an unlucky lightning strike, a resourceful engineer and his high-energy niece will have to find a way to plug in and power up to save everyone from certain doom!

From simple circuits to giant grids, fossil fuel power plants to wind farms, electricity keeps the world running. In Science Comics: Electricity, you’ll discover where electricity comes from, why lightning suddenly strikes, and how we’ve harnessed it all to turn the lights on in your room. Ready for action? Get energized with electricity!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250265852
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	05/23/2023
Series:	Science Comics Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	44,809
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	9 - 13 Years

About the Author

Andy Hirsch is a cartoonist living in Dallas, Texas. He is the author and illustrator of several entries in First Second's Science Comics series, including Dogs: From Predator to Protector, Trees: Kings of the Forest, and Cats: Nature and Nurture.

Editorial Reviews

A Junior Library Guild selection

From the Publisher

2023-02-08
Saving the world might not have been in Julie’s holiday plans, but it sure beats doing homework.

In a quasi-dystopian future, machines are the last bastions of defense between monsters and humans. Julie’s Uncle Niko, a retired mech pilot, guards a lighthouse, keeping storms and monsters at bay with the help of Menlo, an automated defender. But when Menlo loses power and the monsters escape and begin wreaking havoc on the city, electricity might be the only thing that can put things right. The story blends fact and fiction; woven into the narrative are intricate, immersive illustrations of a variety of electromagnetic principles, including types of energy, power sources, and currents; voltage; and more. These topics are explained at a higher level than is typically found in children’s books, demanding careful attention to ensure understanding. Some readers might get lost in the details even if they find the concepts interesting. The book often reads more like a series of infodumps, with an ostensibly connecting thread of plot the author occasionally remembers to check back in on. Hints at a wider world, one that’s sustained primarily by renewable energy sources in the wake of human-induced environmental destruction, are intriguing but poorly developed. Julie and Uncle Niko are light-skinned.

Informative but clumsily executed. (glossary) (Graphic nonfiction. 9-13)

Kirkus Reviews