[The Acadia Files 01] • Book One, Summer Science (The Acadia Files)

Acadia

Greene wants answers. Who keeps stealing her blueberries just as they ripen on

the bushes? Why is her hair curly? Why does the sun wake her up so early in the

summer? Why does the tide submerge her sandcastles? How do rocks become sand? Acadia

doesn’t set out to do science, but she has these important questions and her

scientist parents refuse to simply feed her the answers. “Conduct an

experiment,” they tell her. “Use the scientific method.” So Acadia gathers

evidence, makes hypotheses, designs experiments, uses the results to test her

hypotheses, and draws conclusions. Acadia does science.