The Atomic Weight of Secrets ─ Or the Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black.They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker from New York, United States; twelve-year-old Noah Canto-Sagas from Toronto, Canada; and thirteen-year-old Faye Vigyanveta from New Delhi, India, depositing them all at a strange, isolated farmhouse in Dayton, Ohio, with kindly schoolteacher Miss Brett.But what mysterious invention have all the children, unbeknownst to one another, been working on? Who are the men in black? Are the men in black trying to kidnap them—or protect them? And if they're trying to protect them—from what? An amazing story about the wonders of science and the still greater wonders of friendship, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black, the first book of the Young Inventors Guild trilogy and the fiction debut of Eden Unger Bowditch, is a truly inventive novel young readers will forever treasure.

Eden Unger Bowditch has been writing since she was very small. She has been writing since she could use her brain to think of something to say. She wrote while attaining her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and she wrote songs as lead singer of the band Enormous.She has written stories and plays and shopping lists and screenplays and dreams and poems—and also books about her longtime Baltimore home, like Growing Up in Baltimore and Druid Hill Park: The Historic Heart of Baltimore. She has been a journalist, as well as a welder, and an editor, and other things, too.The Atomic Weight of Secrets is her first young adult novel, and she has been as excited writing it as she hopes you are reading it. Presently, Eden lives with her family (husband and three children) in Cairo, Egypt. But that's another story entirely . . .