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1) Supergifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call gifted.
2) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Pennybaker School volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are happening at Pennybaker School for the Uniquely Gifted, and sixth-grader Thomas Fallgrout must stage a revolution to set them right.
4) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Now a musical on broadway and streaming on Netflix!
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves...
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old girl Ash McNulty struggles to keep up keep up with her fellow "Gifted and Talented" classmates, but when her plan to win the Quiz Bowl to show she is still on top backfires, she learns that there are many ways to be special.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are hoping to go to the Magnet Academy for their middle school years, instead of Harbortown Elementary/Middle School; but when a new girl Dana Denver starts tormenting Farah and her younger brother, Samir, she decides she can not leave Samir to face the bully alone, especially since the adults and even Allie do not seem to be taking the matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which...
Author
Series
Up-and-under volume 1
Publisher
Tor Com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework--without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable....
Author
Series
Pennybaker School volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thomas Fallgrout is a new student at Pennybaker Academy for the Uniquely Gifted where he his blamed for a missing statue so he teams up with his oddball friend Chip Mason to find it.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
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