Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad No. 2: Newton's Flaw
e=mc2 marie's fertilizer
1 Izzy Newton had a secret and it was cosmic Only two other people in the entire universe knew about it her brothers They’d known all summer and they were totally trustworthy so Izzy was sure that her secret was safe until the day she decided to spring it on the world which Izzy grinned Might be today Izzy’s friend Marie Curie saw her beaming smile and asked What Oh nothing said Izzy even though she was bursting to tell A breeze tousled her curls and twisted the strings of her hoodie She and her friends were on the flat roof of their school building They had discovered how to get there back in September when they first started sixth grade at Atom Middle School 7
Now it was October It was the first sunny day in a week and the girls had rushed up after lunch to enjoy a few minutes of sunshine before their afternoon classes Izzy felt on top of the world or at least the part of it that mattered to her She sighed Isn’t this place The Best It’s great said Marie Great doesn’t touch it corrected Allie Einstein The roof is great multiplied by googolplex You can see the whole wide world from up here Charlie Darwin didn’t say anything She was doing a series of warm-up exercises raising her arms high over her head taking deep breaths of the warm October air The girls had transformed a protected corner into a private hangout Pooling their talents they’d created a habitat that was part jungle part greenscape Charlie who was really into biology had transplanted pumpkin vines into long wooden boxes Marie crazy for chemistry had used compost to concoct an organic fertilizer so potent the pumpkin vines went bonkers overflowing the boxes Physicist Izzy had made pinwheels that stopped the birds from pecking at the tiny pumpkins And Allie the math whiz had written a 8
atom middle school's pop up science fair the countdown has begun atom middle school's pop up science fair blasts off in ten days be ready to launch your project ignite your imaginations get your brains fired up computer program to measure hours of sunlight and their effect on the pumpkins growth Just then their friend Gina Carver burst through the door She was wearing her backpack which like her locker pockets room at home and brain was overstuffed and overflowing with a crazy collection of things and ideas for her potential engineering projects Gina knelt beside the contraption she’d invented to collect rainwater and automatically sprinkle it on the pumpkin plants on dry days How’s it working she asked It’s dripping beautifully said Izzy Suddenly a piece of paper flew out of Gina’s backpack Allie caught it just as it swirled up into the sky As she read the paper Allie shouted Guess what guess what guess what There’s going to be a pop up science fair 9
