
BECKY BEXLEY THE CHILD GENIUS SERIES
Certificate of Excellence
- The Golden Wizard Book Prize


Book #1
Trying to Make the
World a Better Place
From the moment she was born, it was clear that Becky Bexley was not like other children. Her family were shocked by her behaviour!
Just a few years later, she's in secondary school, often seeming wiser than her teachers. She does her best to help people, whether they like it or not. Thankfully, they often do. She has advice for her teachers when they want to give up smoking, gives a boy advice he uses to stop himself being teased, and even gives the headmaster some advice on improving the school’s anti-bullying strategy.
She helps people outside school too, including rescuing her mum from a con artist, and she even gets to go to the White House, where she ends up giving the president advice about his behaviour!
He invites her to help some politicians and White House staff with depression. They're impressed with the amount of information she passes on to them at such a young age and its helpfulness, and she leads them in a bit of group therapy. The talk she gives goes well . . . most of the time. There are just one or two unfortunate incidents.
Becky's advice is based on genuine therapy techniques and psychological research, and the books in this series combine humour with handy information.

Book #2
Good and Bad times at University
Becky Bexley the child genius goes to university at a much younger age than most people do. She copes with the coursework, but has a few unexpected difficulties.
Things begin well, as she makes friends she has fun with, and finds herself giving one of her psychology tutors some psychological help.
She has a laugh working on a local community radio station with other students, and interviews the brother of a founder member of the pop group Fleetwood Mac.
The paranormal comes up for skeptical and sometimes amusing discussion after a student tells the others about scary night-time experiences he's been having that seem to be supernatural.
However, at a Christmas party in the psychology department, a succession of stressful events begins involving tutors behaving badly that makes Becky worry she risks being thrown out of university.
Becky's advice is based on genuine therapy techniques and psychological research, and the books in this series combine humour with handy information.

Book #3
Student fun and a Mammoth Discussion
Child genius Becky Bexley entices a group of her fellow university students to play a rowdy game in class for fun one day that has worried tutors coming to investigate what's going on.
On another day, she and a group of other students have a long long discussion where they talk about such things as world leaders taking foolish risks, false rumours, and interviews with transsexuals, and they tell stories about scams and broken friendships. The discussion often becomes humorous though, as they tell each other funny news stories, make up jokes, and think up wacky ideas for fun.

Book #4
Comedy, Alcohol, Trauma and Games
Child genius Becky Bexley helps to organise a lot of fun at university, some for charity. She turns out to have a talent for stand-up comedy.
Alcohol comes up for discussion one day as students talk about embarrassing things they did while drunk and the harmful effects of alcohol on the body.
During her summer holidays, Becky helps a girl overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, and a little boy with an anxiety problem that's blighting his life.

Book #5
Experiences with a Blind
Student
In this mix of serious topics and humour, Becky Bexley is in her second year of university, at the age of about eleven, where she does voluntary work for a new blind student called Barbara who needs people to read her study material to her. They strike up a friendship, often have a laugh together, and Becky meets her brother and some of her disabled friends. They all tell her about their experiences of living with disabilities, a few of them amusing.
Becky and Barbara also make a new friend, with whom they discuss such topics as how eyewitness evidence can sometimes be unreliable without the eyewitnesses realising, and tricks lawyers can use to try to discredit witnesses in court.
Becky gets too argumentative one evening, stirring up a controversy that threatens to ruin Barbara's meet-up with old school friends. On the bright side, it's an opportunity for her to learn one or two worthwhile life lessons, although whether she does learn them is open to question.
This book, like the others in the Becky Bexley series, can be read as a standalone as well as a part of the series.