by Chris Grabenstein

How many of you bookworms wished you could just always be the smartest person in the room just so people won’t accuse you of only being smart at just one thing? This book is about a boy who accidentally consumed jelly beans which made him the smartest person in the world. Oops!

Jake McQuade is a normal middle school boy. Doesn’t care one bit about school, gets average grades, and all he wants to do is play video games. He goes to the gala that his mom is organizing at the hotel his mom works at and eats these jelly beans he found backstage because he is “hungry”. But weirdly enough, eating random jellybeans from backstage was not a good idea! Who knew? When he wakes up the next morning, he is an ultra genius! With the help of the scientist who created the beans, his sort-of girlfriend Grace, and his best friend Kojo, he is ready to take on the school principal working to shut down the school. But as he tries to help out, he discovers the downsides to being ultra smart and is faced with a question he finally doesn’t know the answer to.

This book is warm and full of laughter, jokes, and bathroom humor as this teen genius figures out that maybe you don’t need to know all the answers to be happy. Maybe it’s good to have a few mysteries. They make life interesting, don’t they?