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Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
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Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it. Most people--her teachers and doctors included--don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak...
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Tween twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald have finally reached the last leg of their wacky and dangerous cross-country road trip, but they must fend off a host of strange assassins before they reach their home in California"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Captain Underpants
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Description
When Victor, total expert at everything, finds himself at the center of an intergalactic conflict, he'll need the help of his trusty sidekick Dumpylumps the duck, and his best friend Patti, to find his way out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Description
Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
After tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet. In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her...
Author
Series
Problematic paradox volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's world is turned upside down when her father is abducted by aliens and she is suddenly transported to a special boarding school for geniuses, but things get even stranger when she realizes she has certain abilities that put her entire school in grave danger.
12) Genius Camp
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 E-Audio Books
Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's New Books: January 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's New Books: January 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--
13) Genius
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions. Professor Stephen Hawking reveals our true potential in a radical new science show which challenges a selection of volunteers and the viewer to think like the greatest geniuses of the past and answer some of humanity's toughest and most enduring questions.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers -- or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl? Yes, it's true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's four-year-old brothers...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years"--
16) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
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Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
Author
Series
H.I.V.E volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E.
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