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ADA
twistS
Big project Book
for Stellar
Scientists
by
Andrea Beaty
illustrations by
David Roberts
Abrams Books for Young Readers
New York
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ISBN 978-1-4197-3024-5
eISBN 978-1-68335-303-4
Text copyright 2018 Andrea Beaty
Illustrations copyright 2018 David Roberts
Instructional illustrations by Noah MacMillan
Book design by Chad W. Beckerman and Laura Crescenti
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There are many kinds of scientists.
They study earth and sky,
plant and ocean, rock and star,
bug and butterfly.
And yet, they share the same pursuit:
To ask the question, Why?
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Your picture here:
Worlds Greatest Scientist
Your name here:
This book is a tool to help you become an even better scientist! Use the blank
spaces for your ideas. Imagine. Draw pictures. Ask questions. Create. Doodle!
Have fun exploring your scientific ideas and questions and your dreams.
You can share your creations with others or keep this project book
all to yourself. You decide.
This book is for
YOU!
Congratulations! You are a
scientist just like Ada Twist!
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THE STORY OF ada twist,
sciENTIST
Her frazzled parents did their best
to keep up with Ada as she explored
the world. They worried a little that
she did not speak even as she grew
older, but they could see that she
was always thinking and figured she
would start talking when she had
something to say.
Ada Marie Twist was a quiet but
curious baby. One day, she piled up
her stuffed bears and broke out of
her crib. Ada was on the go! She
tore through her room exploring
everything, and she didnt stop until
she conked out at night.
Thats just what happened when
Ada turned three. She climbed to
the tip-top of the grandfather
clock to see what was there.
STOP! yelled her parents.
Ada stopped. Her chin quivered.
She took a deep breath. And for
the first time, Ada spoke.
Why? she asked.
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That was it. Once Ada started asking questions,
she did not stop!
Why does it tick and why does it tock?
Why dont we call it a granddaughter clock?
Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose?
Why are there hairs up inside of your nose?
Why? What? How? When? She asked over and over
and over again! Ada wanted to know EVERYTHING.
As she drifted to sleep after a long day of questions,
her parents smiled and whispered,
Youll figure it out.
As Ada got older, her parents tried their best to help her find answers to
her many questions. Even Miss Lila Greer found that her hands were quite
full as Ada performed wonderful but rather messy experiments at school.
It was very clear that Ada Twist was a scientist.
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She came up with hypothesis two:
The cat made the stink.
However, the cat needed some help making
such a big stink. Ada sprayed the cat with
her mothers fancy perfume and her fathers
cologne. It made the cat stink, but it was not
the stink that made her toes curl. Hypothesis
two was proven wrong.
On the first day of spring, Ada was busy with
an experiment. She was testing the sounds that
make mockingbirds sing when
ZOWIE!
a terrible stench whacked her in the nose!
What kind of stink could make her toes curl like
that? Ada Twist had to find out.
First, Ada researched smelling and smells.
Next, Ada came up with a hypothesis, an idea she
thought could explain the terrible stink. Ada wondered
if that horrifying stink came from her fathers cabbage
stew. She tested her hypothesis, but she concluded
that the stew did not explain the terrible stink.
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Ada needed to start again, but
first she had to clean the cat.
Ada Marie Twist started to do
something that nobody should
EVER do! She tried to give the cat
a bath in the washing machine.
It was a terrible idea! An awful
idea! A horrible idea! And boy,
did she get in trouble.