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Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein (Trailblazer Biographies) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephanie Sammartino Mcpherson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 302183
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 1575050676
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.092
EAN: 9781575050676
ASIN: 1575050676
Publication Date: June 1997
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Recounts the life of the scientist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.
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Informative and Interesting February 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked this book because it was very informative and interesting. It was short and quick and I found out things about Albert Einstein. It covers his background, personal life and professional life. As a boy he was fascinated with a compass and wanted to know why the arrow always pointed north. When his father told him about magnetic fields, he was very excited about magnetism. That was just the beginning of his quest for discovering new things. In addition to enjoying equations and explaining his theories in an understandable way, he played the violin and liked sailing too. He denounced his German citizenship and became a citizen of the United States, none of which I knew before reading this book.
His advice was to always ask questions and never lose your curiosity about things. A lot of his teachers didn't like that he asked so many questions that they couldn't answer. When he became a professor, he encouraged his students to ask questions and was never upsset if he didn't know the answer. He just told them he didn't know.
Karen Arlettaz Zemek, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry"
Personal stories and facts kept my interest December 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Spencer Zaborowski (age 12) for Reader Views (12/07)
"Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein" is a biography, which is a story of a person's life, of the famous German scientist. He was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. He had one sister. He was thought of by his parents as being slow and not very bright, because he had an unusually large head when he was born and he did not speak much until he was nine-years-old. He was not a good student and was teased a lot by his teachers and other students, because he was different and questioned them a lot. He finally moved to Switzerland and worked for awhile before being accepted into college. He was curious about the world around him, especially science. He was a professor at universities in Switzerland and Germany, and he worked very long hours finishing scientific papers. He wrote the famous Theory of Relativity in 1916. Albert Einstein came to the United States in 1933 and lived in New Jersey because he was worried about how Jews were treated in Germany. He married twice - his second wife was his cousin. He died in 1955.
At first, I thought this book would be boring and full of science and facts, like some other biographies I have read. But after the first few pages, it was hard to put down! The reading was interesting, and the black and white pictures throughout the book helped to make the story easy to follow. There were not a lot of technical words that would be hard to understand. The book did not go into detail about the scientific things that he wrote about. Instead, the book was more about his personal life and his odd personality. I learned a lot of things about him that I had not known. For example, Einstein never learned to drive a car because he was confused by mechanical things. That was very funny to me.
I would recommend "Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein" to middle school-aged kids. I don't normally like to read nonfiction books--only when I have to for school--but this one kept my interest because it told a lot of personal stories and facts about Einstein that made him seem ordinary, like the title says.
ordinary genius January 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book it gave me alot of great information, I did'nt have to go to other sources to get information about his life. I'm doing a report on his life for a school project. I'm going to dress like he did and memorize a speech I'm going to write and then give it in front of my school and all the parents of our school.
Sean Delgado Per.3 (Ordiary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein) March 31, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3
The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.
I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.
What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.
My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.
Sean Delgado Per.3 (Ordiary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein) March 31, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3
The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.
I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.
What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.
My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.
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