The Wrong Wrights

By Chris Kientz, Steve Hockensmith, Lee Nielsen (Illustrator)

Book #1 in the Secret Smithsonian Adventures series

Kids time-travel to save aviation history from mysterious changes.

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64 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Dominique, Eric, Josephine, and Ajay's Smithsonian field trip takes a twist when they find the Air and Space Museum altered. With exhibits missing, they team up with a quirky A.I. and a fabrications specialist to travel through time, aiming to restore the Wright brothers' legacy. As they unravel the mystery, they learn about aviation and face unexpected challenges. But their adventure doesn't end here—another historical anomaly awaits at the Natural History Museum. Can they save history before it's too late?

From the publisher

The first graphic novel of the Secret Smithsonian Adventures series. Our heroes intervene to save the National Air and Space Museum from Wright brothers interlopers! Schoolmates Dominique, Eric, Josephine, and Ajay are excited about a field trip to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. When they get there, however, they find a very different museum than the one they were expecting. Not only is it much smaller, it’s filled with balloons, blimps, and dirigibles, many of them with the same logo: BARRIS AIRSHIPS. Where’s the Spirit of St. Louis? Where’s the Apollo 11 command module? Where’s the Wright Brothers’ 1903 flyer? With the help of a museum fabrications specialist, they travel through time to try and restore the Wright brothers to their well-earned place in history. Along the way they also learn about aerodynamics and other aviation principles from a wise-cracking A.I. named Smitty. But the kids’ story doesn’t end there–something is amiss in the next stop on their Smithsonian tour, the National Museum of Natural History–so they’ll have to work together to save history again in volume two.

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