Genius Fiction Kids

Tom Angleberger scored two critical and popular hits with his Star Wars–inspired The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back. In the hilarious Fake Mustache, young Lenny Flem Jr.’s friend Casper disguises himself with a shockingly convincing handlebar mustache and begins robbing banks, quickly amassing a fortune. Setting his sights on the presidency, Casper is working on plans for world domination—and only Lenny stands in his way.

He survived forty thousand years in ice. Modern life might finish the job. When thirteen-year-old Richard Gardner crashes his snowmobile into a glacier, he expects a broken bone—maybe a lecture from his parents. What he doesn’t expect is to discover a living Neanderthal frozen inside the ice. Defrosting Bruce turns out to be the easy part. Now Richard, his sarcastic sister, and their overwhelmed parents are stuck hiding a prehistoric houseguest who thinks automatic doors are predators, microwaves are weapons, and grocery stores are an endless buffet. As Bruce struggles to make sense of ...

A pig that does math tricks. A parrot that seems to know what she's saying. A flying pig...um, pug. These animals know what it means to be in the spotlight. Meet Mudslinger the superstar pig, Einstein the parrot genius, and Otis the skydiving dog. Hear the stories of these three amazing animal superstars in Parrot Genius.

Genius kids twin team Luke & Luka, Erik & Erika, and George & Georgia are students at Kemet Elementary school. Each twin is born with a unique genius ability. But something strange is going on in their town Mr. Fearwell the CEO of Transhuman Corp., is unleashing an army of genetically and technologically enhanced kids for their rich and famous parents. All these enhanced kids go to A.1 Prep. But something is off with these kids from A.I. Prep. They are just too perfect. Our Genius Kid Heroes will have to find out what it is. The battle for the future of humanity begins as our heroes, led by...

An Adventure So Big, It Needs 500 Years To Fit Rocky Automan is just your average kid genius. When he’s not in school wrecking the grade curve for his classmates, he’s in his laboratory in his parent’s garage, making tapdancing cockroaches and laser guns. Rocky can make anything… …except a friend. So when Rocky hears about Leonardo Da Vinci, a genius inventor that captured the hearts and minds of the world for centuries, Rocky does the only sensible thing: he builds a time machine so he can meet his new role model: and hopefully, meet a new friend, too. But as smart as Rocky is, ...

Via LaVie thinks she’s just an average fifth-grader. She has a mom and dad, an irritating older brother and a cat. She has friends (Molly Appleton is her bestie) and an enemy (bossy mean girl, Tailor Madison). And, she has plenty of worries about going to middle school in the near future. But Via also has a secret that makes her far from average: she’s an undercover genius who remembers just about everything she sees. It’s an ability that was encouraged by Via’s beloved grandmother while Via faced one of the biggest challenges in her life. And while her eidetic memory comes in handy...

When he was a small kitten, Whiskers never received his present from Santa due to a mistake. This caused him to become an evil diabolical genius cat who wanted to steal Christmas. With the help of aliens who kidnap Santa and drop him off on a deserted island, Whiskers learns a life lesson and changes his ways after he learns what the true meaning of Christmas is.