"Why can't you be normal?" says almost everyone to eleven year old boy genius Norman Albert. Norman is a brilliant student at Callahan Elementary school, although he is at a university graduate IQ level. He has always gotten perfect on science, and math tests which would be made specifically harder for him only. He lives in Leiper's Fork but is hoping to travel to Calgary for an inventors competition although, his legal guardians aren't willing to take him. Norman, being who he is replies "Why can't you be more like me?"