Gibbs, Stuart.
CHARLIE THORNE AND THE LAST EQUATION

Booktalk #1

What if I told you the greatest mind since Albert Einstein is a twelve-year-old girl?

When a long-rumored equation of Einstein’s becomes the focus of intelligence agencies and terrorists, the CIA knows they’ll need to think outside of the box if they want to find it first. Enter Charlie Thorne, certified genius, daredevil, and thief. Her mind is the only one capable of following Einstein’s clues to his long-lost formula, which could power the world--or utterly destroy it. Blackmailed into helping the CIA, Charlie is dragged around the globe, facing freezing conditions in the Arctic, bullets in the Middle East, and a fiery mountaintop showdown. But is a twelve-year-old girl really a match for terrorist gangs, Israeli special forces, and Einstein himself? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award, 2021)

Booktalk #2

The CIA has just tapped Charlie Thorne to save the world...but what Charlie really wants is to be old enough to drive! At the age of 12, the extraordinarily clever, smart, and adventurous Charlie is a thief (though she doesn’t think so) and a first-rate mathematician, on the level of Einstein, no less. So when the US government needs someone to crack the clues and find the location of Einstein’s last equation, one that could save or destroy the world, they have no choice but to recruit Charlie. Slow to trust anyone’s agenda but her own, Charlie leads the CIA and the enemy Furies on adventure after adventure in a race to solve Einstein’s riddles. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021)

Booktalk #3

In this action adventure international spy novel, Charlie Thorne is a genius, a thief, and has now been recruited by the CIA to help find the missing Einstein formula before it falls in the wrong hands. Einstein hid the formula before he died when he realized it could either benefit the world or destroy it, depending on how it was used, and Charlie may be the only person smart enough to find it.  (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2021-2022)