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Seventh grader Lennie Miller has a gift. Her new hometown of Bailey, Indiana, sits on the edge of the Mystical Realm, and she can see the creatures that cross over from that world to ours. The creatures know that Lennie is a Pattern Finder, and they come to her for help with their math problems\u2014and they have a\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of problems. With her best friend Gil, Lennie solves an array of ghastly and ghostly dilemmas. She computes a ghost girl\u2019s inheritance, determines the winner of a Bigfoot foot-size contest, calculates how much money a vampire and a werewolf need to spend on a ring for the girl they both love, and helps a monster chef with his recipes.<\/p>\n

All of these problems are scattered among the biggest problem of all: Lennie must save both the Mystical Realm and Bailey from a horde of brain-eating zombies. Can she figure out how to stop them in the Mystical Realm before they reach Bailey? Can she help the wizards set up another line of defense? Can she figure out the chances that the otherworldly creatures will be able to put brains that have been removed for safekeeping back into the correct bodies, since they inadvertently neglected to label them? There are so many problems to work out to try and help the Mystical Realm stay safe from the zombies! Lennie\u2019s gift doesn\u2019t feel like one to her\u2014it\u2019s more like a curse. But when a zombie shows up at her doorstep, she knows that her mathematical talents are the only thing that will save her\u2014and the world as she knows it!<\/p>\n

Author Robert Black says about his creative math puzzles:<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of math problems don\u2019t make sense in real life. They never explain why you\u2019d have sixty watermelons or why you\u2019d want to give three-fifths of them to your friend. But in my books, the math problems come out of the situations the characters get into, and the characters have reasons why they want to solve those problems.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There is a\u00a0supporting website<\/a>\u00a0created by the author, with lots more puzzles and cited connections to the works and puzzles of Lewis Carroll, Descartes, Fibonacci, Pascal, and ancient Persian mathematicians.<\/p>\n

Night of the Paranormal Patterns<\/em>, the first book in the Mathematical Nights<\/em> series, is also available as a series of dyslexia-friendly books that incorporates several special features to make it accessible to children with reading difficulties. The Night of the Paranormal Patterns Dyslexia Pack is part of the Lennie Miller Dyslexia Series and can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robert Black is also the author of the\u00a0Mathematical Lives series<\/a>, a set of biographies about mathematicians who helped to shape, not just mathematics, but also our world as we know it today.<\/p>\n

U<\/span>seful Links:<\/p>\n

Robert Black’s article about math fiction on our News page<\/a>
\nArticle on “MiddleWeb” by Robert Black about writing the Mathematical Nights books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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