Another student, Dari Kapoor, whom Natalie thinks is the smartest in the class, is also entering it. For this, students create a contraption that protects an egg when it’s dropped from three stories up.
Neely suggests she enter an egg-drop competition for her science project. Natalie struggles to pay attention at school. Unable to explain the illness, Natalie tells no one about it, not even her only friend, Twig. Her mother stopped going to work as a botanist, sleeps a lot during the day, and let all the plants in her greenhouse die-even a cobalt blue orchid from her lab that she grew with Natalie. Natalie’s mother, Alice, has had depression for a few months, but nobody explains this to Natalie. Each chapter title is an assignment from her science teacher or a life task. Natalie, the narrator and protagonist, structures the eight parts of her novel according to the steps of the scientific method. However, she also records her thoughts about family, friends, and everyday life, making the notebook a journal. Neely: Choose a scientific question to investigate for the entire school year, and record observations about it in a notebook. Seventh-grader Natalie Napoli receives a yearlong assignment from her new science teacher, Mr.
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