Simon Bloom, The Octopus Effect

Reviewed by Kira M for TeensReadToo.com Simon Bloom and his friends have a cool job. They are part of the Physics Guild, for which Simon is the co-keeper of the Teacher's Edition of the Book of Physics. They have the ability to use formulas to control the different laws of physics and get to use them......more

In this book, Simon Bloom and his friends, Owen and Alysha are celebrating their recent victory over the villainous Sirabetta. Nicknamed Sir by her evil friends, and suffering from a memory loss, Sirabetta is stuck at age thirteen rather than thirty-three and her magical tattoos aren't working. The......more

In the first book of the Simon Bloom trilogy, The Gravity Keeper, a boy from a New Jersey middle school becomes the keeper of the Teachers Guide to Physics, a book that controls the laws of space and time. It's a heavy responsibility for a kid, but he earns it by putting a stop to the villainous Sir......more

“You know that universe you’re living in? It’s a pretty old place. Every religious group, philosopher, or scientist has different explanation for when-and how-everything got started. But, at the very least, it’s clear the universe is no spring chicken. After all that time, you’d think it would’ve l......more

A second book that is every bit as good as the first. It retained all the things that made me fall in love in the first place: the sense of wonder, the intellectual inquiry, the character growth, the original world. Mr. Reisman managed to make an expanding threat to match our hero's expanding capaci......more