science & technology

One night near the beginning of sixth grade, Ellie’s mom unexpectedly brings home a surly teenage boy, who turns out to be Ellie’s curmudgeon grandfather, Melvin.  Melvin is a scientist (some in the scientific community think he’s a kook), but as it happens, Melvin has discovered a genetic formula to reverse the effects of aging and is now 13 again.  Despite the palpable tension between Ellie’s divorced, thirty-something mother and her now-teenage father, Ellie embraces the chance to really get to know her grandfather.  Ellie discovers that she has quite a bit in common with Melvin (more than she does with her artistic parents), and herRead More →