Sixteen-year-old Jacqueline "Jake" Maria Palomera is the lone survivor of a drug-related incident gone very wrong. After her mother and baby brother are killed in a gang shooting by mistake, she's sent from her California home to live with a cousin in Boise, Idaho, where she finds herself enrolled at the Boise Learning Unit for Exceptional Students (BLUES).

There, Jake meets an extraordinary group of young geniuses whose boredom in traditional classrooms has driven them to find ingenious ways of stirring up trouble and making mischief.

When Sheriff Nick Lash is assigned to...