The Genius Hour Project

Eleven-year-old Frazzy is mostly coping with not quite fitting in at school, until all the good stuff in her life goes haywire.

Frazzy  likes to chat her way through her school day, distracting her best  friend Mel while secretly eyeing the boy she has a crush on -- all  without attracting any more attention from Jake the bully. When her  teacher springs a yearlong assignment on her class called The Genius  Hour Project, Frazzy sees it as her ticket to "normal-ville." By  choosing "the most boring topic ever," she tries to please everyone  except herself -- with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Frazzy's BFF might  be moving to a different school, and Frazzy's dad, just when she needs  him most, disappears into a major depression.

How can  Frazzy be true to her own quirky self and survive all the challenges  that life is throwing at her? That's the question at the heart of The Genius Hour Project.