Andrew Clements

An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.

Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because she wants to be treated normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.