Phone Life, A Teen Novel, Written by Paris Gamble is designed to expose students to (and stimulate interest in) STEM careers in a non-threatening way.
This novel will focus on a STEM job and give some insight into what that job is like, what they would spend their days doing, and what kind of money they can make. This story depicts how a student like David becomes a STEM professional. There is simply no Career Technical Education content like it that focuses on STEM careers.
Meet the Novel and Premise
David, like most other students, has no idea what he wants to be when he grows up. David is always messing around and fiddling with phones, calculators, and computers.
His interests seem to be more on gadgets than actual studies and therefore throughout middle school and high school he get tutored by a girl named Carlie. What he didn’t realize was that if he just applied what knowledge he used with his gadgets and gizmos to everyday life, he would be just fine.
While being tutored by Carlie, he realizes he likes her but is too shy to say so. Will David ever find out how he can better apply his unique skills toward his future? Will he ever get the courage to tell Carlie how he feels?
Reviews
Readers’ Favorite Book Review Mini Critique by Deepak Menon
Paris Gamble has certainly kept the story very clean and true, and taken care to instill character among in the target group of teenagers in this changing world, where ethics are often left by the wayside.