The Genius Files 4-Book Collection: Mission Unstoppable, Never Say Genius, You Only Die Twice, from Texas with Love

The Genius Files #1-4

by Dan Gutman

With the real-kid humor that has earned Dan Gutman millions of fans around the world, and featuring weird-but-true American tourist destinations, The Genius Files is a one-of-a-kind mix of geography and fun. This collection includes the first four novels in this bestselling series.The Genius Mission Unstoppable : The most exciting road trip in history begins! In this action-packed, New York Times bestselling adventure, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a family vacation you'll have to read to believe. As Coke and Pepsi dodge nefarious villains from the Pez museum in California all the way to the Infinity Room in Wisconsin, black-and-white photographs and maps put young readers right into the action.The Genius Files #2: Never Say Genius : Coke and Pepsi McDonald never asked to be geniuses. They never asked to get lowered into a basket of boiling French fries, either. And they certainly never asked to be frozen in soft-serve ice cream, stampeded in a wild stadium riot, or kidnapped on a high-speed roller coaster. But that's what happens when a red-haired villain named Archie Clone is chasing you across America. This just might be the most dangerous road trip in history—and the most awesome!The Genius Files #3: You Only Die Twice : As the twins continue their family road trip from Washington D.C. through the South, it will take every bit of their genius abilities to outwit their wacky enemies. It doesn't help that their parents remain totally oblivious! When they finally get to Graceland, Elvis's home in Memphis, Tennessee, Coke and Pepsi come to an explosive conclusion you'll have to read to believe!The Genius Files #4: From Texas with Love : After their explosive escape at Graceland, twins Coke and Pepsi are ready to resume their trip across America. They travel through Arkansas and Oklahoma, visiting weird-but-true tourist stops along the way, and finally end up in Texas, home of the Weird Capital of the Country, Austin. The twins' many enemies—the bowler dudes, Mrs. Higgins, and Dr. Warsaw—all swear that they're done chasing Coke and Pepsi for good. But when the twins start receiving more codes and ciphers from a mysterious robotic voice, they know someone's after them. They just have to figure out who before the mystery villain finds them first.

Genres: Childrens

1184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 5, 2014

About the author

The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of baseball books, including The Green Monster from Left Field. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. As he noted on his author Web site, since writing his first novel, They Came from Centerfield, in 1994, he has been hooked on fiction. "It was fun to write, kids loved it, and I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD."

Gutman was born in New York City in 1955, but moved to Newark, New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there.

Reviews

[Susan Marciniak · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent series

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is TOTALLY my favorite series. I just love it, and highly recommend it to anyone 9+

[Joyce T. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, I learned a lot about random stuff while reading this series. It's a pretty fun way to spend a couple afternoons.

[Viktoria Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent series that hits a lot of high points of US Geography with a little history thrown in. My 9 year olds and I listened to all five audio books. It was fun to tell the kids where they have travelled that Coke and Pep visited. *one minor annoyance… the Colorado River is at the Hoover Dam, not the Columbia.

[anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based my 6th grade personality off this book

[Taner Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Koyaanisquatsiuth Super Sigma Soylemezoglu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good series

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series was the first series was my first series that I completed I know that it was only 5 books which is really easy to do if you try to but for me it was hard I didn't really like to read so I only read 20 min and I read really slowly but i could read 20 pages in 20 min.

[Douja]

It was the some book I read in my life

[Kalai Srikanthan]

very adventurous