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1) Matilda
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English
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This collectable hardcover edition will feature a beautiful cover and deluxe packaging, including blue interior text and illustrations! From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes the story of girl with extraordinary abilities. Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror...
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Baby Brains volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A musically gifted baby is invited to play the electric guitar at a star-studded rock concert.
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Pennybaker School volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Thomas Fallgrout is a new student at Pennybaker Academy for the Uniquely Gifted where he his blamed for a missing statue so he teams up with his oddball friend Chip Mason to find it.
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Pennybaker School volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are happening at Pennybaker School for the Uniquely Gifted, and sixth-grader Thomas Fallgrout must stage a revolution to set them right.
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Elements of genius volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be.
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Elements of genius volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears...
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Frank Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Language
English
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If You Like Keeper of the Lost Cities, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - MID
If You Like Keeper of the Lost Cities, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - MID
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After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
13) Ungifted
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Pub. Date
c2012
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English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
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Jake the fake volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
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The up-and-under volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and enemies great in number, as they make their way toward the Impossible City in the hope of finding their way home. But the final part of their journey is filled with danger and demise. Not everyone will make it through unscathed. Not everyone will make it through alive....
16) Supergifted
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he's landed in the perfect place to do it-Donovan's school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury...
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Time quintet volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
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