When the best of the best can't get national disasters under control. it's time to call in the big guns. NERDS means National, Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society. They're a group of elementary school kids who use their upgrades to save the world and they are with the team until they are 18 year old. (If your wondering why not give the adults the gadgets to save the world with, well let's just say that adults need to stay in their own time period of technology or they could laser their hand off: just saying) After the team's last group director dies (He jumped out of a window outlooking a shark tank at a local aquarium with a bomb strapped to his chest and three knives to his back) Agent Brand (a.k.a Alexander) who's the world's best super spy until his leg got hurt in explosion on one of his missions, is elected the new team's director (His cover is him being a janitor for the school) Ms. Holiday is the person who helps the team in mission intelligence, cover stories, clothing and weapons, and mission preparation (PS: She is not a good baker).
Now on to the Jackson Jones part: Jackson is the coolest kid in his school, which happens to cover up the secret headquarters of NERDS which is under the school, and is the captain to his Pee Wee football team until he gets his braces. Suddenly his life of popularly is gone overnight. He gets cut from the football team (this is a minor detail later on because sports is what keeps his family together as his father was a football player before he was injured, and his older brother Chaz, who gives him the idea of his codename "Braceface", who is on his high school football team till he gets cut from it) because his helmet won't fit over his headgear, his friends mock him and push his head into a toilet and his dad (His mom died last year) keeps yelling at him to keep his grades up. So, Jackson starts to spy around the school from his old friends to his teachers and when he thinks the mysteries of his school are about to run out and he will have to turn to homework to keep him busy, he runs into the NERD herd!
The NERD herd (a.k.a the NERDS team) consists of Duncan Dewey "Gluestick": He eats paste and because of his Nano technology, he can stick to walls, Ruby Peet "Pufferfish": The team's leader and her Nano technology which is her allergies helps her detect danger and dishonesty, Heathcliff Hodges a.k.a Simon "Choppers": The major villian in all five books and can control minds using his upgrades which are in his teeth, Julio Escala "Flinch": The second newest member of the team before Jackson and is a hyperactive boy who's Nona technology let's him covert his hyper energy into super speed and super strength, and Matilda Choi "Wheezer": She has asthma, hates anything girly and with her Nano technology and her inhalers, she can fly as well as kick butt! (Note: All upgrades for the NERDS team has its limitations and one of these is an EMP transmitter (An electromagnetic pulse device))
When Jackson discoverers the Playground which is the NERDS headquarters and gets upgrades by Benjamin (Note; Not the president but a AI orb who gives NERDS their missions and is the autopilot to the "School Bus", which is not an actual school bus but a rocket (After the events in this book, a regular school bus gets upgrades to become a rocket after the first "School Bus" is hit by missiles), Agent Brand decides to let him join the team thinking he can bring the team back to its former glory and bring the team closer together. After Jackson discovers what his Nano technology can do (His braces can turn into whatever he wants or thinks them to be) and after a few horrible disaster like missions with his team, Jackson decides to quit the team thinking he is not good enough to be one of them.
Bad guy time: Like I said before, Simon is the major badguy for all five books in the series. It's Dr. Jigsaw (Felix Jigsaw) the team needs to worry about who is the Jigsaw Puzzle King, and a brilliant scientist specializing in plate tectonic theory and Pangea, Dumb Vince: a goon who works for both Simon and Dr Jigsaw until Dr Jigsaw dies, not much is known about him except that he played piano until at the end of the book when he got a hook for his hand and his want-to-be assassin: Mindy Beauchamp, a 12 year old girl who from the age of seven till the age of 11 or 12, she was a professional in beauty pageants but it wasn't her good looks that made her win every pageants but the talent portion. Instead of ribbon dancing, she gave an instruction lesson on how fend off an attacker with flaming nunchakus or any other martial arts lesson her mother could enroll her in while they were on the road. (Her mom is now working with dogs in beauty pageants, her dog is a west highlight white terrier named Daisy who she treats like she is a person)
Now when Mindy realizes that Jigsaw is crazy and his plan could kill millions, she finds Jackson and together they will have to save the world before North America ceases to exist. (Note: The parents of the NERDS team do not know about their secret life and if one of they were to die on the job, their parents would be given a medication that will cause them to forget they were born. This happens at the end of the book with Simon's parents) I give this book 5 out of 5 stars because when I was reading this book, I didn't want to stop reading it after I picked it up because it was such a page turner.
Now on to the Jackson Jones part: Jackson is the coolest kid in his school, which happens to cover up the secret headquarters of NERDS which is under the school, and is the captain to his Pee Wee football team until he gets his braces. Suddenly his life of popularly is gone overnight. He gets cut from the football team (this is a minor detail later on because sports is what keeps his family together as his father was a football player before he was injured, and his older brother Chaz, who gives him the idea of his codename "Braceface", who is on his high school football team till he gets cut from it) because his helmet won't fit over his headgear, his friends mock him and push his head into a toilet and his dad (His mom died last year) keeps yelling at him to keep his grades up. So, Jackson starts to spy around the school from his old friends to his teachers and when he thinks the mysteries of his school are about to run out and he will have to turn to homework to keep him busy, he runs into the NERD herd!
The NERD herd (a.k.a the NERDS team) consists of Duncan Dewey "Gluestick": He eats paste and because of his Nano technology, he can stick to walls, Ruby Peet "Pufferfish": The team's leader and her Nano technology which is her allergies helps her detect danger and dishonesty, Heathcliff Hodges a.k.a Simon "Choppers": The major villian in all five books and can control minds using his upgrades which are in his teeth, Julio Escala "Flinch": The second newest member of the team before Jackson and is a hyperactive boy who's Nona technology let's him covert his hyper energy into super speed and super strength, and Matilda Choi "Wheezer": She has asthma, hates anything girly and with her Nano technology and her inhalers, she can fly as well as kick butt! (Note: All upgrades for the NERDS team has its limitations and one of these is an EMP transmitter (An electromagnetic pulse device))
When Jackson discoverers the Playground which is the NERDS headquarters and gets upgrades by Benjamin (Note; Not the president but a AI orb who gives NERDS their missions and is the autopilot to the "School Bus", which is not an actual school bus but a rocket (After the events in this book, a regular school bus gets upgrades to become a rocket after the first "School Bus" is hit by missiles), Agent Brand decides to let him join the team thinking he can bring the team back to its former glory and bring the team closer together. After Jackson discovers what his Nano technology can do (His braces can turn into whatever he wants or thinks them to be) and after a few horrible disaster like missions with his team, Jackson decides to quit the team thinking he is not good enough to be one of them.
Bad guy time: Like I said before, Simon is the major badguy for all five books in the series. It's Dr. Jigsaw (Felix Jigsaw) the team needs to worry about who is the Jigsaw Puzzle King, and a brilliant scientist specializing in plate tectonic theory and Pangea, Dumb Vince: a goon who works for both Simon and Dr Jigsaw until Dr Jigsaw dies, not much is known about him except that he played piano until at the end of the book when he got a hook for his hand and his want-to-be assassin: Mindy Beauchamp, a 12 year old girl who from the age of seven till the age of 11 or 12, she was a professional in beauty pageants but it wasn't her good looks that made her win every pageants but the talent portion. Instead of ribbon dancing, she gave an instruction lesson on how fend off an attacker with flaming nunchakus or any other martial arts lesson her mother could enroll her in while they were on the road. (Her mom is now working with dogs in beauty pageants, her dog is a west highlight white terrier named Daisy who she treats like she is a person)
Now when Mindy realizes that Jigsaw is crazy and his plan could kill millions, she finds Jackson and together they will have to save the world before North America ceases to exist. (Note: The parents of the NERDS team do not know about their secret life and if one of they were to die on the job, their parents would be given a medication that will cause them to forget they were born. This happens at the end of the book with Simon's parents) I give this book 5 out of 5 stars because when I was reading this book, I didn't want to stop reading it after I picked it up because it was such a page turner.