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1) Hunger
Author
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knut Hamsun believed that modern literature should express the complexity of the human mind and nowhere is that philosophy more evident than in this stunning modern masterpiece, "Hunger." First published in 1890 in Norwegian and based on Hamsun's own experiences with poverty prior to his success as an author, "Hunger" tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway's capital city of Kristiania (now Oslo) looking for...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student-he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
Publisher
crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Armed with the power of science, high school genius Senku has awoken himself and his friends from their petrified state. While they've escaped the stone-cold eye of Tsukasa, Senku must leave his friends to find new allies and grow the Kingdom of Science. Although his new friends might be human, they're certainly not from his time. Get excited the road to saving humanity is paved in stone.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Armed with the power of science, high school genius Senku has awoken himself and his friends from their petrified state. While they₂ve escaped the stone-cold eye of Tsukasa, Senku must leave his friends to find new allies and grow the Kingdom of Science. Although his new friends might be human, they₂re certainly not from his time. Get excited the road to saving humanity is paved in stone.
Author
Series
Genius (Leopoldo Gout) volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Three underprivileged young prodigies from across the world with incredible skills in technology and engineering team up to become the heroes the world never knew they could be"--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For ten-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His family does their best to support the high-maintenance, high-IQ child, but it's tough love from his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is Meemaw that helps him navigate problems in the real world. Join Sheldon in 22 hilarious, heartwarming episodes as he embarks on an innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
10) Genius Camp
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--
11) The perfect girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey - child genius, musical sensation - is perfect. Yet several years ago, Zoe caused the death of three teenagers. She served her time, and now she's free. Her story begins with her giving the performance of her life. By midnight, her mother is dead. The Perfect Girl is an intricate exploration into the mind of a teenager burdened by brilliance, and a past that she cannot leave behind.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian McLaren explores reasons to leave or stay within the church and if so how... "Any thoughtful Christian has been asking the questions McLaren tackles here, but many of us are afraid to voice them aloud. In Do I Stay Christian? we're gifted a gentle guide who opens ideas and voices the questions we cannot, naming our frustration, fear, and hesitant hope." -Rev....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how...
14) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During the new semester, Sheldon attends his first comic con and gets a group of nerdy friends while Missy begins questioning everything -- including religion and sex -- while Georgie takes a job at Meemaw's new laundromat-slash-gambling-den and the parents struggle at work and home.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet. In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.--
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume Prequel
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A book for those who have experienced the spiritual trauma of fundamentalist Christianity, in which the author shows how a more authentic faith can be raised from the ashes of disillusionment"--
"We have a right to encounter God where we are. We have a sacred responsibility to experience God authentically." What happens when the God we've been taught to believe in seems powerless to help us in the struggles of life? What do we do when the God we...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season Three;s 21 hilarious episodes follow Sheldon as he tests the patience of his family, the proofs of his analytical theories, and the limits of his knowledge of the real world. Whether he's taking a break from science to obsess about Hobbits or setting foot on the Caltech campus for the very first time, viewers won't want to miss a nanosecond of this boy genius' genuinely heartwarming boyhood.
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