gifted children

A discussion of how to cope with some of the problems of being a teenager of special ability, including problems with friendships, family relationships, and how to use a gift for the best.

Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.

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.

Presents a curriculum model that focuses on developing the abilities of all students and extending the abilities of those performing at advanced levels, with resources designed to help teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade determine student performance levels, develop intellectual challenges, and plan a differentiated curriculum, and includes curriculum units, sample rubrics, and improvement tables.

After embarrassing himself at her birthday party, Mal hopes to impress the girl he has a crush on, Megan, with his performance in the school talent show.

Gifted eighth-grader Leon and his friends make it their mission to save their favorite coffee shop by taking down its competition--a chain store called Wackfords.

Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed.

When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.

In a love story told in photographs and drawings, Glory, a brilliant piano prodigy, is drawn to Frank, an artistic new boy, and the farther she falls, the deeper she spirals into madness until the only song she is able to play is "Chopsticks.".

In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.