An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
 - Trenton Lee Stewart, Diana Sudyka)
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
I enjoyed this book very much. It's almost as good as the Mysterious Benedict Society. There's less racial diversity... no racial diversity really, as every character is depicted as white in the illustrations and no character is explicitly described as a character of color. There is a deaf character, however, I wish she, Violet, had been treated differently. She's posed as a great lipreader, but Nicholas is also posed as a genius who teaches himself the basics of sign language (presumably ASL?) in one night. He learns even more from Violet in one conversation. After that one conversation though, Nicholas abandons sign language and only translates Violet's signs for John. Why doesn't he continue to sign after that initial conversation?
Also, a totally unrelated thought, but Stewart's writing often feels slightly British to me.
