The Real Hermione

Copeland Alaina Piel is a teenage girl genius. The fifteen-year-old sophomore from Myrtle Beach has already planned out her life: go to a university close to home, get a job, settle down with a family and have cute kids, all the normal-ish stuff. But she also wants to be known at her new North Carolina school as out of the ordinary. For better wording, extraordinary. The most bookish girl around, she has one thing to prove and one thing only. Her mother doesn't think she can. Her little sister doesn't get it. Her favoured parent, her father, has been living in Canada since Copeland was eight and doesn't even know about what she is trying to do. She and her mother had agreed that if Copeland is at the top of her class through freshman and sophomore year, she can move to Canada with her father. In Myrtle beach, it was easy. Her school was easily prioritizing sports over academics, so Copeland was far ahead. However, in Buie's Creek, she doesn't know what to expect. The only way to be sure she will rank first is to take after her childhood idol: Hermione Jean Granger.