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Marianne Blume has always known shes not smartAfter years of trying and trying at school Marianne has mastered the art of getting by on luck deflection and her winning personalitythat is until she lands in Mr Garcias class Suddenly shes at risk of flunking math repeating the eighth grade and being left behind by her best friend Skyla To receive muchneeded extra credit and get into high school Marianne makes the desperate decision to join her schools Quiz Quest team only to find out they have problems of their own and that they need to win the state championships for her to get the credit Now Marianne will need to believe she can succeedlike truly believe it for the first time in her lifewhile also helping her teammates pull it together Can Marianne learn to be smart What does it mean to be bright anyway And will she be left in eighth grade foreverBrigit Young The Prettiest has written an empowering story about bucking labels overcoming preconceptions and learning to hold your headand handup high