Before you start reading, there are a few things you should know: 1. I, Esha Verma, am a genius inventor extraordinaire. 2. There is nothing I cannot invent. This includes words. 3. I like lists. 4. I did not mean to send my sister back to the Age of the Dinosaurs. That was HER OWN FAULT (Mum and Dad, if you're reading this, please take note). Esha Verma, her snotty apprentice Broccoli and his secretly cunning pet tortoise, Archibald, have a dream. They are going to win the legendary Brain Trophy - the ultimate inventing prize. This year's entry: A TIME MACHINE. But when Esha's IGNORAMUS big sister, Nishi, storms in and presses The Big Red Button, she and the time machine are lost in time. Luckily for Esha, Secondus, a new recruit for the The Office of Time, appears with a way to travel to the past. But it comes with a price: he needs to destroy her regulation-busting time machine when they recover it.