As an overpopulated future Earth prepares to colonize other planets, telepath Rhyssa Owen, director of the Jerhattan Center for Parapsychics, discovers two unusually gifted children whose psychic abilities could spell Earth's doom.
Discusses a study of more than two hundred gifted students, examining why some teenagers, environmental conditions being equal, fulfill their potential in their particular talent areas as they grow older while others do not.
A guide for adults working with gifted children that explains what giftedness means, how gifted students are identified, and how the identification and education process of gifted students can be improved.
After winning a scholarship to an academically challenging boarding school, Maizon finds herself one of only five African Americans there and wonders if she will ever fit in.
Renne Sundheimer, child prodigy cellist, looses his talent suddenly at age eighteen. After years of teaching at a Southern California university, he finds another prodigy and becomes a juror in a murder trial.
Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.
childhoods of more than 700 famous men and women : the complete original text
Goertzel, Victor
2004
Presents the text of the 1962 survey of the childhoods of eminent people of the twentieth century, examining the emotional and intellectual climate in which they were raised in an attempt to identify similarities in their experiences, and includes a 2003 update discussing trends since the original publication with key findings from a new sample of biographies.
Erica has been the one genius at Barringa East Primary School until Alison Ashley arrives. Alison is beautiful, rich, clever and steals the spotlight. The girls vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Offers parents and teachers advice on how to improve classroom curriculum and experiences for gifted children, discussing how schools can match programs to a student's specific needs, traits, and abilities.
