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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The creator of Yale University's popular "Genius Course" examines how fourteen key habits of genius, from curiosity and creative maladjustment to rebelliousness and obsession, have been effectively demonstrated by history's most influential and change-promoting intellectuals
Pablo Picasso couldn't pass a 4th grade math test. Steve Jobs left high school with a 2.65 GPA. Yet they are considered geniuses, and their cultural contributions have helped...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages chiefly color illustrations 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What are the core teachings and beliefs of Judaism? Readers will learn about one of the world's most widely practiced religions through the lens of two different perspectives and dive deep into important figures, sacred texts, holidays, and commandments. This narrative nonfiction book uses considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage and accommodate struggling readers. Includes sidebars that are...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Author
Series
The Smartest Kid in the Universe volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
7) Food fight!
Author
Series
Mal and Chad volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Chad begins having scary dreams, Mal builds a dream portal to defeat Chad's nightmare beast once and for all. Something goes wrong, though, and the beast follows Mal back to reality. Now Megan and her friends are in danger . . . but Mal is there to come to the rescue.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
Author
Series
Mal and Chad volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grade genius Mal and his talking dog Chad shrink themselves to microscopic size and travel through time, but girls and the school bully present bigger challenges.
11) The kingdom of God is within you: Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life
Author
Publisher
Page
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
xvi, 368 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom Of God Is Within You is one of the most provocative anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian pieces of literature ever written. In the context of a sincere and scathing account of what is living and dead in modern Christianity, Tolstoy presents a view of history and society that overcomes widely recognized theoretical contradictions implicit in his monumental early novel, War and Peace. At the focal point of The Kingdom Of God Is Within...
12) The perfect girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the...
Author
Series
[A Charlie Thorne novel] volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth -- or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now a diabolical group known as the Furies is closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to help them find it first -- even though this means placing her life in grave danger. In a breakneck...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 wealth and influence, so she hid it before committing suicide. She left a series of devious clues behind for her children to find it, but they were lost to history--until now...Charlie must fight for her life against ruthless enemies,...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
She's been so busy worrying about the Terrigen Cloud that would turn her Inhuman, Luna Lafayette might instead fall prey to...Cosmic Cooties?! Because when a new boy moves to town from far, far away, he's oddly interested in her. Meanwhile, the most wanted T-Rex in NYC is running out of places to lie low - a problem that won't get any easier when our darling duo undergo a body swap! It's a big change up that will see Luna spending a freaky Friday...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lunella Lafayette is an inhuman preteen genius who wants to change the world! That job would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent inhuman gene. There's no telling what she'll turn into -- but Luna's got a plan. All she needs is an Omni-Wave Projector. Easy, right? That is, until a red-scaled beast is teleported from the prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call...today! Together they're the most Marvelous Team-Up...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tony Stark, Victor von Doom, T'Challa, Amadeus Cho...the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe all have one thing in common: they're not smarter than a 4th grader! That's right, the rumors are true - Lunella Lafayette is the smartest there is! Now it's time to put her unrivaled intellect to the ultimate test. Thankfully her best friend, Devil Dinosaur, is thirty feet of mutated prehistoric muscle, making for the perfect combination of brains and brawn!...