Q3 #5 The Fourteen Goldfish Summary

An eleven year old girl name Ellie and her quirky grandfather Melvin. Melvin is a scientist who has discovered a "cellular regeneration formula to reverse aging". He is happily thirteen again and has comes to live with Ellie and her divorced mother after being arrested for trespassing at his own laboratory, where no one recognize the new him. Melvin really want to improve the formula from his laboratory and publish the results so the formula can receive the recognition and award he believes it deserves. Though reversing his aging process was everything he wanted, Melvin realizes the limitations of being thirteen are vast and he relies on Ellie and her friend for help. Melvin opens Ellie's eyes to the endless of science and how the "achievements of scientists like Jones Salk, Robert Oppenheimer, and Marie Curie have changed the world and how the world will continue to be shaped by people just like Ellie".

Ellie Cruz is 11 years old and she just graduated 5th grade, Melissa is a high schooler and her dreams is to be a teacher while her dad Jeremy CuCruz is an actor. Ben is Melissa'a stanch boyfriend with degrees from Harvard and m.I.T Grandpa Dr. Mavin Sagarsky  is a scientist. Brianna was Ellie's best friend. Momo is Ellie's lab partner. My. Hann is the science teacher. Raj is the  goth kid who thinks that "old Sagaraky is a quack." Ananda is Raj's older brother. Starlily was Ellie's preschool teacher. Nicole is Ellie babysitter. Bernadette is the middle school secretary and a friend of Melissa's and Billy is an Australian diver.