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    Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist
    Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist
    Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist
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    Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist

    By Emily Calandrelli, Tamson Weston and Renée Kurilla

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    From Emily Calandrelli—Emmy-nominated host of Xploration Outer Space, correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World, and graduate of MIT—comes the fifth novel in a fun illustrated chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology.

    Third grader and inventor extraordinaire Ada Lace is on spring break. But it’s just a little less relaxing than she’d imagined. Nina is beside herself with excitement about meeting her favorite artist and enlists Ada and Mr. Peebles’s coding-whiz nephew to help revamp her online portfolio.

    When Nina finally meets Miroir, he snubs her, and her confidence is shaken—but not enough to miss the art show opening. While there, Ada spots a suspiciously familiar painting that may mean Miroir isn’t the original he claims to be.

    Will the friends be able to reveal the artist’s true nature, before he fools someone else?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781534416895
    Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist
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    Emily Calandrelli

    Emily Calandrelli is an MIT engineer turned Emmy-nominated science TV host. She’s the host and coexecutive producer of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix, featured as a correspondent on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World, and an executive producer and host of Fox’s Xploration Outer Space. Emily is the author of the picture book Reach for the Stars, the science experiment book Stay Curious and Keep Exploring, and the science chapter book series the Ada Lace Adventures. The third book in the series was launched to the International Space Station through the Story Time from Space program. Learn more at TheSpaceGal.com.

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      Ada Lace and the Suspicious Artist - Emily Calandrelli

      Chapter One

      A MAN NAMED MIROIR

      Okay. A tick to the right," said Nina.

      I moved it to the right before, and you said to move it back, said Ada.

      Okay! Sorry! Wait a minute. Now I don’t know if that background looks good with these pieces. Maybe we should start over.

      Nina!

      Ada was helping Nina build an online portfolio. It was the best way to introduce her creative energy to the universe, Nina had said. They had been at it all day, and patience was wearing thin. Ada had some of the coding skills, and Nina had a vision in her mind’s eye, but making those two things meet in the middle was harder than they thought. All the numbers, letters, tags, and brackets were starting to blur together. They had already spent an hour trying to add a feature that would allow art lovers to position an image of the piece they were thinking of buying within a picture of their space so they could see what it would look like in context. Ada had learned a few different coding languages from working on George, but Web design was a different ball game. She couldn’t quite manage what Nina wanted. And since Ada couldn’t perfect the art placement feature, Nina seemed unhappy with everything.

      I’m sorry, said Nina. It’s just that I want Nina Nina Land to look professional . . . impressive. I want Guy Miroir to know I’m for real.

      That was the other problem. Ada was sick of this Miroir character. Her mom had been preparing for his show all week, and Ada had never seen her so stressed out. Between Ms. Lace and Nina, it seemed like Miroir was the only important person in the world. She looked forward to having her friend and her mom back.

      I’m not a professional, said Ada. If I were, I would be charging you!

      In the middle of it all Elliott burst into Ada’s room with socks on his hands and started rubbing the corner of her desk, her bookshelf, and the head of her bed.

      What are you doing, Elliott? asked Ada.

      I’m helping clean! said Elliott.

      Mr. Lace popped his head in. "Elliott. You’re supposed to be cleaning your room."

      Oh, I am, said Elliott. I’m just making it fun!

      It’s not supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be done! said Mr. Lace.

      Elliott stomped out of Ada’s room.

      I don’t know how much more I can do, said Ada. At least right now. This is beyond my skill level.

      Fine, said Nina. I’m going to go home for a bit and see if I can come up with something a little simpler, I guess.

      You know, Mr. Peebles’s nephew, Tycho, is here, said Mr. Lace. Isn’t he a really good Web programmer?

      Yes, he is! said Ada. Thanks, Dad.

      •  •  •

      Ms. Lace was at the gallery late again, so it was just Ada, Elliott, and Mr. Lace for dinner. Elliott insisted on cooking. It was his latest kick. Ada did not have high hopes. If she and Nina hadn’t spent so much time together already, she would have gone to Nina’s for dinner.

      The table was set as only Elliott could set it—with a dinosaur in front of each plate. Ada sat in her usual seat.

      "No,

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