Boy Genius

A summer ant farm grows into a learning experience for the entire family in this lyrical coming-of-age story from the award-winning author of Down to Earth. "Endearingly executed, this gentle tale will see readers applauding as they reach the end.” –Booklist, Starred Review Harvard is...

A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the beasts dancing on the temple tower. He writes mathematics with his finger in the sand, across the pages of his notebooks, and with chalk on the temple floor.

El Niño que Conquistó una Estrella es una historia de madurez que explora el debate entre la educación como una experiencia trascendente y duradera o simplemente el entrenamiento para una vida de adquisición material. El poema épico del Sr. Bedoya transmite un mensaje de esperanza, redención y necesidad de una visión más profunda del mundo, especialmente de nuestros fundamentos educativos.