Are you a budding mathematician between the ages of 10 and 17 who loves reading?  Would you like to make new friends your age who share your passion for mathematics and literature?  Join this in person or online for Tween Primes, the MoMath book club for tweens and teens.

Hosted by Ingrid Daubechies, MoMath’s 2023–2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics, Tween Primes in May will feature Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool.

Navigating Early is an odyssey-like adventure of two boys’ incredible quest along the Appalachian Trail.  After his mother’s passing, Jack Baker is sent away by his father from his home in Kansas to attend a boys’ boarding school in Maine.  Jack didn’t know what to expect.  Certainly not Early Auden, the strangest of boys.  Early keeps to himself, reads the number pi as a story, and refuses to accept truths others take for granted.  Jack, feeling lonely and out of place, connects with Early, and the two make a break from school.  Jack and Early head up river on a search for the Great Appalachian Bear.  Along the way, the two boys meet peculiar and dangerous characters and make some shocking discoveries.  Will their friendship survive the journey?  Can the boys make it home alive?