The Aquanauts - Softcover

Lunn, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887767273 ISBN 13: 9780887767272

Publisher: Tundra Books, 2005

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Greta Kovachi travels with her brilliant father to a laboratory habitat in a submarine on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Her father has created the first man-made black hole to prove that all matter in the universe is made up of infinitesimal particles of time. Greta was looking forward to this adventure, but she gets more than she bargained for. What was supposed to be a trip of a few days turns into a nightmare when an accident with the black hole spins them billions of years into the future, trapping her dad along with the other scientists in a particle of time. Three other kids live on the habitat, and, calling themselves the Aquanauts, they band together with Greta to travel through layers of time in a frantic attempt to save their parents and themselves from being locked under the sea for eternity.

About this title

About the Author

John Lunn grew up in Toronto, Ontario. The youngest son of children’s author Janet Lunn, after a silversmithing apprenticeship in his teens, he moved to Boston to pursue a career as a flutemaker. He has been writing since he was very young, and has written novels and screenplays in between making flutes, raising two children, flying airplanes, and working in local politics. He has a small animation studio and films stop-motion animation. John and his wife, Meredith, now live in New Hampshire with their four dogs.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up–Three teens and a 12-year-old spend their summer vacation on a deep-sea research habitat a mile and a half under the ocean. However, the site is a front for a mad scientist running a super-secret and highly illegal experiment involving the creation of a black hole and time travel. Underperforming Goth girl Greta, whose physicist father brings her aboard, quickly realizes that she doesn't want to be there, especially after meeting ambitious control-freak Jules, super genius Marco, and his younger brother, Nicky, science-fiction geek extraordinaire. She also meets her father's boss, Dr. Simms (the mad scientist). Almost immediately, weird stuff starts to happen. Greta and Marco are sent forward to one time, Jules and Nicky to another, while Dr. Simms's cabal of scientists is flung to an unimaginably far future where they work to control time travel. Simms kidnaps Greta and forces her to be a guinea pig. She figures out how to travel to a specific time and uses her newly discovered leadership ability, along with the help of her formerly distant, now unnaturally aged father, to destroy the project. She also finds time for a sweet romance with Marco. The story starts slowly but builds speed quickly; despite more than a few unanswered questions at the end, it is entertaining and thought-provoking.–Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library
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Edition details

• Publisher: Tundra Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0887767273
• ISBN 13: 9780887767272
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 228