Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament

Lexi Magill and her teammates are the perfect group of kids to capture the attention and hearts of MG readers.
They are relatable, flawed, and totally believable.

The story hits the ground running and doesn't stop. The pace and tension will keep readers turning the pages, from beginning to middle to end.

Kim Long has cleverly threaded STEM aspects into this wild ride that will engage and challenge MG readers. They can choose to stop and try and solve the clues with the characters, or just keep reading to follow along Team RAM's adventure. As an educator, I found myself thinking about all the different ways this book can be used in the classroom!

Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament is a must read for upper elementary and middle school teachers. I highly recommend it for both young readers and readers young at heart, teachers, and librarians.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament was an exciting story packed with clever puzzles and full of heart. I loved traveling the world with Lexi, Ron, and Mal, and I think middle grade readers will as well. Having finished Lexi’s story, I’m eager to find more STEM adventure stories to devour.

*Huge thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review**

This book stole my heart, took it on an adventure, and brought it back to me swollen with happiness. In other words, I absolutely adored this middle grade STEM adventure.

Lexi Magill loves science. Unfortunately, when her dad lost his job, Lexi lost her spot in the Academy, a science school with all the best nerd clubs and her bff. Luckily, you don't have to be an Academy student to enter the Teleportation Tournament. Winners get enough money that Lexi could re-enroll in her dream school and maybe score a mentorship with the teleportation masters/creators/gods.

To get that prize, Lexi gets two students from her new school to form a team with her. Each member of Team RAM has their own agenda, and only one of them is science. Lexi's battle is uphill but she's not a quitter, and I fell in love with her spirit.

The characters in this book were exceptionally crafted. They were relatable, flawed, and totally lovable. Watching them grow while on their adventure was one of my favorite features of this book. They left me with a warm tingly feeling when I finished.

The story hits the ground running and never lets up. The pace is perfect and absolutely reminiscent of the Amazing Race with tension high throughout the pages, from beginning to middle to end.

The STEM aspects are also well done as Lexi and her team explore real places around the globe and look to real scientists and inventors from our past to aid in solving the clues. The math was fun, the puzzles were tricky and the reader could choose their own level of involvement. You can sit down and try to solve the clues with the characters, or just keep reading to follow along Team RAM's journey.

This story was a winner for me and I'd highly recommend it for both young readers and readers young at heart. Fabulously done. I can't wait to read more adventures from Lexi and her team.

Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament is a wonderful story of a 12-year old girl who has recently moved to a new school due to a change in her parents financial situation. She is lonely at her new school, which doesn't even have a science club and Lexi really wants to be back at her old school (a science academy) with her old friends. To help get the money she needs to rejoin the science academy, she sets out to enter in the annual Teleportation Tournament with 2 classmates she enlisted from her new school in hopes that she wins. Once the tournament begins the 3 classmates are provided STEM-related clues to their first destination, which then gives them clues to the next destination and so forth. This is Amazing Race meets STEM students and teleportation devices!

I found the book to be a very enjoyable read. I was engaged right from the start and appreciated how the author let each student shine with their own clue solving abilities as well as their personalities. Along the way the team makes choices and decisions that are not always correct, but in the end their perseverance pays off by teaching them the importance of teamwork and the value of friendship and most importantly just how cool science can be!

My best compliment to the author is that my 11-year old nephew said with a smile on his face that the book and the teleportation tournament sounded like "a really cool idea!" He has also given me permission to buy the book for him once it comes out, which I will because it was such a fun read and a good story.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.