
By Jess Keating, Lissy Marlin (Illustrator)
Book #1 in the Elements of Genius series
A stolen death ray, a secretive genius, and a global chase. Can Nikki save the world?
Nikki Tesla, a young inventor, accidentally blows up her room with a death ray. Sent to Genius Academy, she struggles to fit in among prodigies like da Vinci and Einstein. But when her death ray is stolen, Nikki must team up with her classmates to track the thief across the globe. With a secret she can't reveal and a mischievous ferret in tow, Nikki faces a race against time. Can she outsmart the authorities and save the world from her own invention?
Let the official record show that, I, Nikki Tesla, did not intend to destroy the world.There are only so many times a kid can invent an instrument of global destruction without getting grounded. So when Nikki’s death ray accidentally blows up her bedroom (if you can call a pet ferret with an itchy trigger finger an accident), she’s sent to the only place that can handle her. Genius Academy is a school for history’s greatest brains. Leo da Vinci? Charlotte Darwin? Bert Einstein? All extraordinary. Yet even among her fellow prodigies, Nikki feels like an outsider thanks to a terrible secret she can’t let anyone discover. Ever.But when her death ray is stolen, Nikki must stop worrying about fitting in and learn to play nice with her new classmates. Because it doesn’t take a genius to track a thief around the world, outwit the authorities, and keep a French fry-fanatic ferret happy. It takes all of them.
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