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* IllBeYourBestFriend: Sam offers to be Brenton's friend to let him use the Homework Machine, believing that friends are the one thing he'd want that he doesn't have. Ultimately, they end up becoming friends for real.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Precociously brilliant and antisocial Brenton.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: After a while, Miss Rasmussen starts getting suspicious of the homework the D Squad is turning in because their answers are always perfect with no mistakes. In turn, Brenton starts programming the homework machine to make minor mistakes at random when doing the group's homework.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: After a while, Miss Rasmussen starts getting suspicious of the homework the D Squad is turning in because their answers are always perfect with no mistakes. In turn, Brenton starts programming the homework machine to make minor mistakes at random when doing the group's homework.Snik's and Kelsey's homework because they're more BookDumb than either him or Judy.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Brenton is Japanese-American and a genius kid who's programmed a machine to do his homework for him, and he's only in 5th grade.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Ronnie suspects the D Squad has a secret, he tries to get it out of Brenton by pretending to be friendly, and when that doesn't work, he threatens to reveal what Brenton is up to. Brenton says, "And what exactly am I up to?" Ronnie doesn't have an answer, because he doesn't know.
* AsianAndNerdy: Brenton is Japanese-American and a genius kid who's programmed a machine to do his homework for him, and he's only in5th fifth grade.
* AsianAndNerdy: Brenton is Japanese-American and a genius kid who's programmed a machine to do his homework for him, and he's only in
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: After a while, Miss Rasmussen starts getting suspicious of the homework the D Squad is turning in because their answers are always perfect with no mistakes. In turn, Brenton starts programming the homework machine to make minor mistakes at random.random when doing the group's homework.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: After a while, Miss Rasmussen starts getting suspicious of the homework the D Squad is turning in because their answers are always perfect with no mistakes. In turn, Brenton starts programming the homework machine to make minor mistakes at random.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Downplayed. Giving the homework machine the ability to access the sum of human knowledge leads to it not turning off when unplugged [[spoiler:but that's all it really does. The D-squad freaks out and chucks it into the canyon]].
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* RevealingCoverUp: [[spoiler:The homework machine is only discovered when the D-squad builds a catapult to chuck it into the Grand Canyon and its parts are later found by some hikers, therefore getting them caught for littering.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: When Snik's father dies.]]
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Invoked when Kelsey dyes her hair pink. Snik comments that "she looks like a cartoon character or something, like she's holding a big sign that says, ''pay attention to me!''"
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* SwitchingPOV: The story is narrated by 4 characters: Brenton Damagatchi, Kelsey Donnelly, Sam "Snick" Dawkins, and Judy Douglas.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Invoked when Kelsey dyes her hair pink. Snik comments that "she looks like a cartoon character or something, like she's holding a big sign that says, ''Pay attention to me!''"
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Invoked when Kelsey dyes her hair pink. Snik comments that "she looks like a cartoon character or something, like she's holding a big sign that says, ''Pay ''pay attention to me!''"
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Invoked when Kelsey dyes her hair pink. Snik comments that "she looks like a cartoon character or something, like she's holding a big sign that says, 'Pay attention to me!'"
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Invoked when Kelsey dyes her hair pink. Snik comments that "she looks like a cartoon character or something, like she's holding a big sign that says, 'Pay ''Pay attention to me!'"me!''"
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* OpenMindedParent: Kelsey's mom lets her elementary-school-age daughter dye her hair pink and pierce her belly button.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Judy is a gifted, hardworking and rule-abiding student who gets called a goody-goody and a know-it-all by the other kids.
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* NobodyLikesATattletale: When the D Squad first hears about the homework machine that Brenton built, Judy thinks about raising her hand and telling the teacher, but decides not to because everyone already calls her a goody two-shoes and she doesn't want them calling her a tattletale too.
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* BondingOverMissingParents: Kelsey starts crying when she finds out about Snik's dad, because she's lost her own father.
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* AsianAndNerdy:Brenton is Japanese-American and a genius kid who's programmed a machine to do his homework for him, and he's only in 5th grade.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Kelsey starts crying when she finds out about Snik's dad, becauseshe's she lost her own father.father in a snowmobile accident when she was six.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Kelsey starts crying when she finds out about Snik's dad, because
