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Author
Series
My weird school volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thanks to the encouragement of Ms. Coco, the gifted and talented teacher, A.J. becomes a popular school poet during National Poetry Month.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism that requires constant care and attention. She has never spoken a word, but she has a powerful gift that others would give anything to harness: she can heal things with her touch...Antoinette's gift, though, puts...
Publisher
Great Potential Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Provides a definition of gifted children, and discusses their characteristics and issues such as communication, motivation, enthusiasm, discipline, perfection, idealism, friends and peers, family relationships, values, and how to find a good educational fit or get professional assistance for testing, diagnosis, or counseling.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery...
6) Ungifted
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Series
Universe after volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified. Together, Esa and fellow Justified agent Jane Kamali travel from planet to Pulse-ravaged planet, searching for other children with Esa's supernatural abilities. But on a visit to an extremely remote planet to rescue a gifted Wulf boy named Sho, they learn that the Justified are not the only people searching for gifted children. There is a creature with unexpected powers who will stop...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. And neither knows the other exists--until now. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a tantalizing world of secrets and lies. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight...
10) Loveboat, Taipei
Author
Series
Loveboat Taipei volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ever Wong's parents sent her away for the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
11) Secret coders
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Attending an elite school where enterprising students are challenged to solve a variety of clues and puzzles using computer programming, Hopper and her friend, Eni, resolve to crack the school founder's most elusive mystery together.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Language
English
Description
When an atomic physicist disappears on a secret mission, his son, daughter and their friend search for him, going on an interplanetary journey through time and space.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Determined to learn the history of once-elite Stately Academy, Hopper, Eni, and Josh are challenged to outmaneuver Principal Dean, who demands that the team turn over their most powerful robot and threatening coding genius, Professor One-Zero.
14) Matilda
Author
Language
English
Description
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For nearly a century, the Justified have been searching for gifted children to help prevent the return of the pulse. Until recently, they thought they were the only ones. Jane Kamali and her telekinetic protégé Esa, now seventeen, barely managed to claim victory against a Cyn-a being of pure energy-hell bent on hunting down the gifted. Now they face an army. The Cyn and their followers will stop at nothing to find Esa and the others. No one knows...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Being a child prodigy in East Texas can be challenging, but it can also make you the most popular student on your college campus. When thirteen-year-old undergrad Sheldon Cooper creates a database, his professors clamor for a partnership, but this puts him at odds with the university. Meanwhile, the relationship between his parents, George Sr. and Mary, hits a rough patch, causing his twin sister, Missy, to take off in their dads truck. Big brother...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
℗♭2016.
Language
English
Description
There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy-- literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested...
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