Charlie and the Whiz Kids discover a prehistoric mammoth tusk and stumble right into the nefarious clutches of an eccentric billionaire in this hilarious third novel of the Charlie Numbers series.

When Tonya Mezrich was little, she preferred art to reading. But then she learned reading could be just as cool, and so could writing books. She attended Tufts University where she studied French Literature, art history and dentistry. She later became a jewelry designer, a fashion designer and produced and co-hosted the TV show Style Boston. She recently launched Boston’s Red Carpet with Tonya Mezrich on NESN, featuring philanthropy and fashion as a follow-up to her role as resident fashion expert at NBC Boston. She is co-author of Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon, which was chosen as the required summer reading for all 4th graders in Boston Public Schools, and is slated to be developed into a TV series with Ellen Pompeo of Gray’s Anatomy. She and Ben live in Boston with their two kids and a pug. You can follow her at @tonyamezrich.

Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. Since then he has published 20 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which has sold more than two million copies in 15 languages and became the basis for the #1 Box Office Hit movie 21. He has also published the national bestsellers The 37th Parallel, Once Upon a Time in Russia,Woolly, and Bitcoin Billionaires. He travels the world speaking to audiences of all ages about writing books and the adventures he has experienced from each of his stories.