This book was so much fun! Lainey and Lovelace Academy were thrilling to read about, and I loved following Lainey on her adventure. There were twists and turns and mystery and a good bit of adventure and fun.

This is such a cute little journey that I would have loved to read as a teen. All of the characters, Lainey especially, were likable and relatable. I appreciated the small quotes, things that made me actually sit back and reflect on them and I appreciated the push for society to accept women into science in the 1900s. It got a little wild around the middle, if I'm being honest, my immersion was broken just a bit because it felt like too many things were happening at once but I did truly enjoy every moment of this book. Highly recommend for young girls who are interested in math and science!

This is an engaging adventure story with an interesting premise. It is different than I expected (it doesn’t take place only at the academy, and it’s not a mystery like Enola Holmes) but I enjoyed it. It is well-paced well-written.

I believe it’s appropriate for readers 8-13ish: generally very easy to understand but with some good vocabulary words to learn. The story has some cliches, but that can be fine for children’s books, as kids may find them relatable (e.g., dealing with a bully). In some ways, the book is fantastical; in others, sadly realistic in dealing with class inequality and gender inequality. Morality is a bit gray in the book as well, with children having to make some difficult moral choices. There is lots of good food for thought and discussion here.

I enjoyed this book and can see myself reading a series about this secret society with my daughter when she’s a little older.

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Lainey Philipps is an orphan who is unexpectedly accepted into the Lovelace Academy, a girls school with a focus on academic classes run by the daughter of Ada Lovelace. Following a conflict with a simply unbearable school bully, Lainey ends up traveling from London to Bern, Switzerland in hopes of helping Mileva Einstein, wife of Albert Einstein, make her mark in history on a special mission for the school's elite secret society.