Teaser Tuesday: Nick and Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week my teaser comes from Nick and Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith. This middle grade mystery has a strong science focus. The main characters make a number of gadgets and the plans are included so that the readers can make the gadgets too. Here is the description of this book:

Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they’re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It’s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own—engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt burglar alarms, electromagnets, mobile tracking devices, and more. Readers are invited to join in the fun as each story contains instructions and blueprints for five different projects.

In Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab, we meet the characters and learn how to make everything from rocket launchers to soda-powered vehicles. Learning about science has never been so dangerous—or so much fun!

Teaser:

"Tez, what would you call Uncle Newt?" Nick said. "A fruitcake or a flake?"

"Dad always called him 'eccentric' when he talked about him."

"And Mom would just roll her eyes."