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An Interview with Cindy Mitchell

For my thirty-seventh Dream Gardens kid lit podcast, I interviewed librarian Cindy Mitchell about her favorite kid’s book,  The Accelerati Trilogy by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman, which includes the books Tesla’s Attic, Edison’s Alley, and Hawking’s Hallway.

Published in 2015 through 2017 by Disney-Hyperion, the three sci-fi adventure books tell the story of a fourteen-year-old boy named Nick who is  trying to pick up the pieces of his life in a new Colorado home with his father and brother after the death of his mother in a house fire.  But that won’t be easy once he discovers a trove of what look like everyday objects in his attic, but which turn out to be inventions of the late Nikola Tessla, objects with extraordinary and sometimes dangerous powers.  When they get sold, Nick and his new found friends have to find them and assemble them into a single machine that just might save the world.  But they also have to contend with a secret organization known as the Accelerati, who want the objects for their own, not necessarily altruistic purposes, and are willing to do anything to get their hands on them, including getting rid of Nick.

Cindy Mitchell is a librarian for the South Jordan Middle School in Utah and host of the book review blog Kiss the Book. You can find Cindy’s website at kissthebook.blogspot.com

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