In this new middle grade series from bestselling author Michael Buckley international espionage & the awkwardness of junior high combine in a hilarious new supergroup: the N.E.R.D.S. In the first book in the projected five-book series five unpopular students run a spy network from inside their elementary school. Each of the kids is a complete social misfit with his or her own unique nerdy burden to bear. With the help of cutting-edge science the kids afflictions are enhanced & become incredible abilities. Working as a team they are the latest members of the National Espionage Rescue & Defense Society or N.E.R.D.S. which battles an array of James Bond-style villains each with an evil plan more diabolical than the last. Dr. Jigsaw the villain in Book One wants to use a giant tractor beam to pull all the continents back together. Whats a few million lives versus a completed puzzle?