The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable:by Dan Gutman 285 pages

Dan Gutman has written a number of kid pleasing series: Baseball Card Adventures, Million Dollar sports series, My Weird School. This is the first of a new series that promises lots of adventures for middle school readers. Twins Coke and Pepsi, their parents have a snarky sense of humor in an anti-establishment way, turn out to be members of a secret government project called The Genius Files. Unfortunately, they learn this just as they told that they are marked for assassination by weird assassins. (The villains are mock humorous like the bad guy in Unfortunate Events). Their clueless parents take them on a cross country vacation. While they had been dreading the trip, they agree that it might keep them alive. Offbeat and funny.