Dumb Like Me, Olivia Potts

by Lila Perl and Lila Perl Yerkow

Ten-year-old Olivia prefers being a low achiever to trying to live up to the academic performances of her brother and sister, until she sets out to solve a series of local burglaries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816431787
• ISBN13: 9780816431786
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Seabury Press
• Length: 181 Pages

Customer Reviews

It's a good read

Fifth-grader Olivia Potts feels like nobody special. She can't compare to her smart, poetry-writing sister or her Yale University attending brother. Olivia makes friends with the new girl in town, Anita. When someone steals the license plates off Anita's parents' car, it's just the first of many strange events that Olivia is determined to get to the bottom of. As she solves the mystery, she learns maybe she is smart after all. It's a good story and has a lot of nice lessons about acceptance. Olivia is a very realistic heroine. I'm sorry this is out of print. I read it (more than once) when I was a kid and really enjoyed it.