The National Academy for Gifted Youth (NAGY) accepts only the best and the brightest for their summer program in Washington, D.C. When Dorie's letter of acceptance for the NAGY science academy arrives she ’s thrilled. But when she finds out her best friend Dixie has been accepted to the NAGY arts academy, she ’s ecstatic. She'll get to study science all week with some of the smartest students in the country, hang out with her friend around the Dupont Circle campus on the weekends and meet her idol JANE GOODALL at the final presentations for Academy Day.

Dorie has always been the smartest and most capable student in every science class she has ever taken but when she arrives to her first day of NAGY she realizes she has gone from being a big fish in a small pond to a typically sized amphiprion percula in a hyper-acclamated environment of equally skilled amphiprion percula . More simply, Dorie no longer rules the lab. Igor Ellis, however, does.

Has Dorie met her scientific match or can she use her scientific abilities to turn Igor Ellis from geek to chic?

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