Gordon Korman - HarperCollins Children's Books

Had that big doofus scribbled my name on the giftedlist by accident? And everybody else thought it wasthere because it was supposed to be? It seemed crazy,but it did explain the two inexplicable things going onin my life right now: 1) why Schultz hadn’t come tokill me yet, and 2) why I’d just been invited to go togenius school.I laughed out loud. People thought I acted withoutthinking? This was a thousand times worse thanhitting a statue with a twig. It was a shoo-in for theBonehead Moves Hall of Fame!“What’s so funny?” Dad asked.I almost spilled the beans. How many chances doyou get to show that the guy who runs the entire cityschool system is an even bigger dipstick than you are?Besides, it’s not like my parents weren’t going to findout eventually. Sooner or later, Schultz would realizehis mistake and . . .Or would he? The only district officials who sawme that day were Schultz and his secretary, and neitherof them had ever met me before. They workedin the administration building, not Hardcastle MiddleSchool. The paper my name was written on was surelygone now, crumpled up in a wastebasket or fed througha paper shredder. The one thing the superintendent28