Fifth grader Nora Rose Rowley is really a genius.
It’s true.
But don’t tell anyone.
Nora always gets average grades so she can forgo the pressure-cooker gifted program or Brainiac Academy.
But when Nora gets one hundred percent fed up over testing and the fuss everyone makes about grades, she brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point.
Pretty soon her teachers, parents, and the principal are launching a massive effort to find out what’s wrong. Can Nora convince them that tests alone are a stupid way to measure intelligence?

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Andrew Clements is an award-winning author with five other bestselling middle grade novels available on audio from Listening Library: Frindle, The Landry News, The Janitor's Boy, The School Story, and A Week in the Woods. Mr. Clements taught in public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving east to begin a career in publishing. Now a full-time writer, he lives in central Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.

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