Remarkably...odd?

Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when reading Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley, but it was so absurd that I had a tough time getting through it!  Ten-year-old Jane Doe is the only ordinary person in the town of Remarkable, where everyone has some extraordinary talent.  She's also the only student not admitted to the School for the Remarkably Gifted, and when she's joined at the public school (yes, shes's been the only kid there) by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, her life gets a little crazy.  Or perhaps things got out of hand because of the pirate who showed up, the argument over which town has the best jelly, the sea serpent named Lucky, the fifth-grade teacher who's oddly proficient at teaching pirate skills, the psychic pizza-maker, or the missing composer.  I thought there were too many strangely different elements for the story to come together, and the message that it's okay to be average gets completely buried...what's your opinion?