An Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee!
From Edgar Award nominee and WNDB cofounder Lamar Giles, this middle grade adventure stars the Epic Ellison twins as they race to solve the mystery of Cosmos Camp for young geniuses in a stand-alone companion to the Legendary Alston Boys series.
Schoolâs out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge...their first summer apart. Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkleâs world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies with their eyes on the stars. Meanwhile, Wiki is looking forward to her first summer on her own, running the family corn stand and outclassing Otto and Sheed Alston.
But the night before Leenâs departure, the twins find out that Wiki has also been accepted into the same camp (even though she didnât apply). And they are...not thrilled. This summer was never supposed to be a Twin Thing. The situation soon goes from bad to worseâbecause the Ellisons havenât been invited just to participate in the program.
Theyâre there to solve a mystery.
Someone (or something) has been tampering with the companyâs upcoming big-deal rocket launch. Now the sisters are undercover, dealing with hypercompetitive campers by day and trying to stop the mysterious saboteur by night.
All is not as it seems at PeteyTech. There are bigger, badder forces at play than the girls couldâve imagined. And if Wiki and Leen donât get their act together fast, their first epic adventure away from Logan County could end up an epic fail...for the entire world.
Lamar Giles is the Edgar Awardânominated author of the Legendary Alston Boys series, as well as several young adult novels. He is the cofounder of We Need Diverse Books and the editor of the WNDB anthology, Fresh Ink. He lives in Virginia with his family.