A budding scientist must figure out how to help save her familys cafe and impress at her new schools science fair in this charming young middle grade read, perfect for fans of the Meena Zee and Front Desk series.
Curious ten-year-old Saffron Speiser-Green loves scienceunfortunately, her experiments tend to end in more messes than actual answers. (Just ask the broken alarm clock thats still at the bottom of her backpack.) Saffron has a plan, thougha blue ribbon in her schools Project Showcase will show the world she means business.
But when Saffrons beloved volcano project ruins the walls at Mamas job and gets her fired, Saffron will do anything to make things rightincluding helping Mama convince her other mom, Mimi, that they should move to the Silicon Valley to run Grans coffee shop. Mamas dream job is worth giving up the blue ribbon. Right?
Luckily for Saffron, her new friends in the Silicon Valley are busy preparing for a STEM Expo, and Saffron is determined to find a project smart enough to show everyone she belongs there. But the coffee shop? No customers, no vision, andtons of debt. And if it closes, Saffrons family will have to move again. After a class trip to the STEAMology Museum in San Francisco, though, Saffron knows how to save the caféand what to do for her STEM Expo project. But shes going to need a lot of help.
Can Saffron prove shes more than a mess-maker and rescue the family business?
