GENIUS SQUAD
Catherine Jinks
Harcourt Children’s Books
Thriller
ISBN: 9780152059859
448 pages

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Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.In GENIUS SQUAD by Catherine Jinks readers reconnect with Cadel Piggott, the computer mastermind first introduced in Jinks’s acclaimed novel EVIL GENIUS. In GENIUS SQUAD Cadel --- now a former evil genius --- tries to use his amazing intellect and skills to bring down the criminal empire that threatens his very existence.

GENIUS SQUAD picks up where EVIL GENIUS left off. The Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up. Dr. Phineas Darkkon is dead. Prosper English is in jail awaiting trial. And Cadel is a boy without a country, caught in a sea of red tape, mired in foster care. His only bright spot is his friendship with Sonja Pirovic, a mathematical phenom trapped in a body wracked with spasms and convulsions. The two are approached by a secret organization of other teen whiz kids whose stated goal is to bring down GenoME, one of Darkkon’s pet projects. They offer Cadel a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But can they be trusted?

© Copyright 2008 by Catherine Jinks. Reprinted with permission by Harcourt Children’s Books. All rights reserved.

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