The Book of the Year: Older Readers – 2018 – ShortlistedThis story by Melissa Keil is of a girl named Sophia and a boy named Joshua. Sophia is a genius with debilitating social anxiety. She is obsessed with Gregori Perelman, a mathematician. Joshua is intelligent, obsessed with magic tricks and incredibly shy and complex. Theirs is a story that has the reader invested in the characters. Sophia is smart, like genius-calculator-brain smart. But there are some things no amount of genius can prepare you for, and the messiness of real life is one of them. When everything she knows is falling apart, how can she crack the puzzle of what to do with her life?
Joshua spends his time honing magic tricks and planning how to win Sophia’s heart. But when your best trick is making schoolwork disappear, how do you possibly romance a genius? In life and love, timing is everything.
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