Virginia fifth-grader’s textbook correction gets hat tip from publisher

Liam Squires saw the photos of igneous and sedimentary rocks had the wrong labels, for which he was thanked by publishing house

They called the television quizshow Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader for a reason, and a Virginia elementary school student has just reportedly reminded everyone of that after getting a publisher to acknowledge a mistake in his class's science textbook.

Liam Squires, a fifth-grader at HM Pearson elementary school in a county less than 50 miles west of Washington DC, recently earned a write-up on the local Fauquier Times news website after noticing that his school's Exploring Science All Around Us textbook had switched up the labels on pictures of an igneous rock and a sedimentary rock.