SOLVED. YA Book about evil genius [s]

[Jessi]

Hiya I am looking for a book I read a teen. It is Young adult though it might actually be a middle school leve book. I read it maybe 2009. The book is about a little boy, a criminal, who get kidnapped and taken to a school for people just like him. They are being groomed to be super villains. I feel the likt title was something along the line of evil genuis academy but I am not sure. I am also not exactly sure if he was kidnapped either. He may have been recruited some other way. I just know that he gets there and wants to leave. He of course has his oh so original cast of male friend and sassy strong female friend. He is also supposed to be the best of the best in his class. The whole story is fairly cliche for a kids book which is making it really hard to find.

[Angela]

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks?

Or maybe H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden?

[Jessi]

Oh thank you so much!! It was the H.I.V.E book. I have been looking for that for a while and kept getting the evil genuis book. Thank you so much