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I don’t know about you, but it’s easier to get my son to the dentist than it is to get him to sit down and read a book. I don’t care what he reads and try to help find books I know he would be interested in. Thankfully, there are some great choices out there this summer. I just got a great new sci-fi series called The Prometheus Project by Douglas E. Richards. I read it first, of course, might motivate him if he knows I read and liked it… it’s worth a shot anyway! I know I am looking forward to reading books two and three in this fun series! The cool technology in the book will appeal to any reader, boy or girl, who is a fan of sci-fi and I love the our two heroes, a brother and sister team of Reagan and Ryan.
AUTHOR/SCIENTIST DISCUSSES WHY ACTION, ADVENTURE, AND – ALIENS – ARE A MIDDLE GRADE READERS BEST FRIENDS!
– Middle-Graders and Educators Give New Science Fiction Series an A+!
In all of science, there is probably nothing more mysterious than the mind of a middle grade reader. Okay, that’s probably a stretch but bypassing the firewalls that protect a 12-year olds’ gray matter from books with boring plotlines would challenge the likes of Euclid, Newton and Einstein.
Enter Douglas E. Richards, molecular biologist and author of The Prometheus Project, a new science fiction series that has cracked the middle grade reader’s super secret ‘it-better-not-be-boring’ code. According to Richards, the formula was pretty simple.
“Action, adventure, danger, creepy creatures and crushes hide the fact that all the science in the series is real,” Richards says. “As a young reader I loved the awesome plots found in science fiction books, as well as the mind-expanding science contained in them…as long as the science didn’t get in the way of action and adventure!”
The Prometheus Project series chronicles the adventures of Regan and Ryan Resnick, who are forced to move from San Diego to the backwoods of Pennsylvania, ‘the most boring place in the world’. Boredom is soon replaced however by unmitigated amazement when the siblings discover an abandoned alien city underground –and that’s just the beginning.
“I couldn’t be happier with the way young readers are embracing the series,” says Richards, “and thanks to the science, the books are also being endorsed by educators across the country – which is a fantastic bonus…just don’t tell the kids!”
Douglas E. Richards, a frequent contributor to National Geographic KIDS magazine, received his Master’s in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin and his MBA from the University of Chicago. The Prometheus Project series has been listed as “recommended literature” by the California Department of Education, and endorsed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and science teacher associations around the country. Richards will be a ‘special guest’ at Comic-Con in San Diego this year. To learn more visit www.douglaserichards.com. Copies of Trapped, Captured and Stranded are available at all major booksellers.
