From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel in which one middle-school troublemaker accidentally moves into the gifted and talented program—and changes everything. For fans of Louis Sachar and Jack Gantos, this funny and touching underdog story is a lovable and goofy adventure with robot fights, middle-school dances, live experiments, and statue-toppling pranks!

When Donovan Curtis pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he’s finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students.

Although it wasn’t exactly what Donovan had intended, the ASD couldn’t be a more perfectly unexpected hideout for someone like him. But as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything), he shows that his gifts may be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed.

《紐約時報》暢銷冠軍戈登．科曼既爆笑又真誠的小說。一個中學問題學生意外進入資優班，帶來了翻天覆地的改變。Louis Sachar 及Jack Gantos 的書迷一定會覺得這個小兵立大功的故事有趣感人，機器人競賽、中學舞會、現場實驗及翻倒雕像的惡作劇等橋段則是可愛又愚蠢！

多諾凡．柯提斯在自己的中學惡作劇造成大混亂，這次連他自己都覺得做得太過份了。幸虧一位學校行政人員搞混了，他不但沒有身陷麻煩，反而陰錯陽差地被送進了學術卓越學院，參加專為資優生設計的特別課程。

雖然這不完全符合多諾凡的預料，但是對他來說，這個班級無非是最適合的意外藏身之處。然而，當資優班的學生和老師慢慢發現多諾凡可能不擅長數學或科學 (甚至什麼都不會)，他卻展現了他的天賦，而這正是資優班的學生從來都不知道自己需要的天賦。