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Author
Series
Baby Brains volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
A musically gifted baby is invited to play the electric guitar at a star-studded rock concert.
3) Ungifted
Author
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
Michael Vey volume 5
Publisher
Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Description
While on their most dangerous mission so far, Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan discover the resistance has been compromised and their families are missing.
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 2 x 15 cm.
Description
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache. Now, almost 150 years later, Collette is a lonely artist running an elite fine art school for children in upstate New York. But her life is suddenly upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from...
Author
Series
Keeper of tales trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"An uncanny child born to brilliant parents, befriended by a prince, mentored by a wise woman, pursued by a powerful man, Secret Riven has no idea what destiny will demand of her or the courage she must have to confront it in the breathtakingly epic, genre-spanning sequel to The Mapmaker's War"--
Author
Series
Up-and-under volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"After climbing Over the Woodward Wall and making their way across the forest, Avery and Zib found themselves acquiring some extraordinary friends in their journey through the Up-and-Under. After staying the night, uninvited, at a pirate queen's cottage in the woods, the companions find themselves accountable to its owner, and reluctantly agree to work off their debt as her ship sets sail, bound for lands unknown. But the queen and her crew are not...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
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
Michael Vey volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing in this final volume of the series.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Simon Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
13) Stars of Alabama
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Series
Up-and-under volume 1
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
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....
15) Loveboat, Taipei
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Ever Wong's parents sent her away fro 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....
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Formats
Description
Nick's supersized ears give him supersized powers. So when he's recruited by Super Fantastic Guy to be a sidekick -- or, as Nick prefers, a superhero assistant -- he leaps at the chance to use his powers for good. Forced to wear a goofy cape and a fanny pack, Nick discovers that being a superhero assistant isn't all it's cracked up to be. Worst of all, he solves the crimes while Super Fantastic Guy takes all the credit. Will Nick ever get the chance...
17) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity...
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Series
Time quintet volume 1
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Description
Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Formats
Description
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
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