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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Is Christianity true? Can educated, thinking people really believe the Bible? Or, do the athiests have it right? Has Christianity been disproved by science and discredited as a guide to morality? Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza (What's So Great About America) approaches Christianity with a skeptical eye, but treats the skeptics with equal skepticism. The result is a book that will challenge the assumptions of doubters and affirm that there really...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophie Simon, a third-grade genius, wants a graphing calculator so she can continue to study calculus while she rides the bus to school, but her parents are more concerned that she does not have any friends.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system--and celebrates the women geniuses past and present who have triumphed anyway. Even in this time of rethinking women's roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people...
5) Evil genius
Author
Series
Evil genius books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches the canonical gospels with the same level of scrutiny he would apply to any legal document and asks all the necessary questions about the story of Jesus told through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey - child genius, musical sensation - is perfect. Yet several years ago, Zoe caused the death of three teenagers. She served her time, and now she's free. Her story begins with her giving the performance of her life. By midnight, her mother is dead. The Perfect Girl is an intricate exploration into the mind of a teenager burdened by brilliance, and a past that she cannot leave behind.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (434 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For ten-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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
Max Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.-- Provided by Publisher.
13) Zero hour
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Overlord has been reborn and forced to hop from victim to victim when he erases the personality. Otto is the only person who can contain him, and in order to get close to him, he needs the secret location of H.I.V.E. Nero knows that Otto cannot fall into Overlord's hands, so he activates Zero Hour, a plan to deal with any member of G.L.O.V.E., setting off a desperate race across the globe. But little do they know that Overlord has a new weapon...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finds Max on the run from Corporation thugs before the Change Maker kids begin working on a plan to end world hunger, a challenging goal that is complicated by mysterious clues about Max's unknown family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling circumstances seem out of her control... or are they?"--Page...
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A genius girl detective discovers her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime, from missing homework and stolen lemon tarts to a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp"-- Provided by publisher.
When Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country. The Academy is a hotbed of crime, and soon Friday is investigating everything from...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking on her biggest challenge yet--preventing climate change from destroying the earth--Max Einstein is pitted against a new evil group that would rather let the whole world crumble than allow her to save the planet.
19) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's up to Otto to save the world from a renegade faction of the world's most powerful villains, known as the Disciples. And when they kidnap two of Otto's friends, things get personal.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"-- Provided by publisher.
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