Cool Nukes
By (Author) Des Hunt
Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Scholastic New Zealand
1st December 2015
New Zealand
Young Adult
Fiction
Short-listed for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: HELL Children's Choice Junior Fiction 2016
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The Professor has always been weird, but an explosion in his backyard laboratory seems to have sent him over the edge. Then he disappears in bizarre circumstances. Three of his young proteges, Max, Jian Xin and Cleo, start receiving cryptic messages, which look like plans for a nuclear device one which could solve all of mankinds energy problems.The children decide to make the device for the upcoming ExpoFest science fair ... but if it works, the technology will be worth a fortune. And certain people arent about to let three kids get the credit...