Magic, poetry, and storytelling are components of this stand-alone series entry. Together these three authors and two young women mesh into a strong bond. Ada is driven to introduce herself to her missing and irresponsible father, Lord Byron. Ada Lovelace Byron has a compelling personality which matched her strong desire to make her way by building automated creatures and beings. Mary Shelley used to day dream about her suitor prior to becoming a feminist. Three established female authors have created the Lady Janies series where they reconstruct the past and concentrate on historical people. Published by HarperTeen on August 2, 2022 With comic genius and a truly electrifying sense of adventure, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn the classics on their head in this YA fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Frankenstein and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.īuy now from a local independent bookstore.My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows But when their dream team results in a living, breathing, thinking PAN, Mary and Ada find themselves hunted by a mad scientist who won't stop until he finds out how they made a real boy out of spare parts. When fate connects our two masterminds, Mary and Ada learn that they are fae-magical people with the ability to make whatever they imagine become real.

Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet: a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to make him truly autonomous. Alas, no matter how precise Ada’s calculations, there’s always a man willing to claim her ingenious ideas as his own. But her passions lie far beyond the arts-in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that’ll inspire a work worthy of her parentage-and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley.Īda Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. It’s aliiiiiiiive! New York Time s bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley. By Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand and Brodi Ashton