Nicholas Dent and the Mysterious Machines

Nicholas Copernicus Dent is having a rotten week. In a cookie-cutter town where nothing out of the ordinary happens, he's struggled his entire life to fit in. It's not easy with a quirky, biologist mom who looks like she's peered in a few too many microscopes. Add to that an obnoxious, brainiac sister whose idea of fun is camping out at the town library. Oh, and he's the only kid in class with a dead father. The last thing Nick wants is for people to think he's a freak.

Too bad he's the weirdest kid on the planet.

He's about to find out his body is full of billions of microscopic nanomachines, put there when he was born by his long-dead scientist father. Problem is, without the machines, Nick dies.

Now, he must deal with foes desperate to seize his machines and use them in diabolical ways. With the help of newfound friends, Nick battles lethal robots, fends off an evil scientist who wants to turn him into a human lab rat, and searches for a mysterious device that is the key to his very survival - all before being exposed as the freakiest kid in town.

Nicholas Dent and the Mysterious Machines is the first book in a series about a boy who wants more than anything to be normal, but in the end, realizes that being special isn't so bad after all.