Time for our third book of the summer! Josh Lieb's lengthily-titled: I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I want to be your Class President --thus after just referred to as "Genius", to limit down all of that typing!
Our protagonist is Oliver Waston, a 12 year old who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He has everyone convinced that he is stupid and lazy --but in reality, he is an evil (and wealthy) genius, who isn't going to let anything stand in his way when he decides to run for 7th Grade Class President.
Real Kid Geniuses are pretty rare, but they're still out there. Jacob Barnette is the most recent, attending college level courses at age 12, and is being offered a reseachers position at his university. He regularly tutors his adult classmates in physics. You can read about him in this Indystar.com article.
What do you think of "real" geniuses? Or even fake kid geniuses, seen in moves like Baby Geniuses and Jimmy Neutron, or even Dexter's Labratory (if you remember that show). How do think Oliver compares to them (so far).
More importantly: do you think he has a chance of becomming Class President, this early in the book?
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