The fourteenth goldfish
About this book
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly, he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this gawky teenager *really* be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth? (Book flap)
Subjects
- aging
- children's fiction
- families
- family, fiction
- family life
- fiction
- grandfathers
- grandparents, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- life change events
- middle school students
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:childrens-middle-grade=2014-09-14
- rejuvenation
- scientists
- scientists, fiction