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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Herman Hesse's spiritual biography, 'Beneath the Wheel,' is a touchstone in the Nobel Prize-winning author's lifelong examination of the conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction. Based on his own experience, his second novel attacks an educational system that fosters intelledt and ambition at the expense of emotion, soul and instinct. 'Beneath the Wheel' tells with compassion and tenderness a sstory that is true for our own age, with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"It all begins with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives at the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible." "Seems like bliss...but is it? Or is all hell about to break loose in Paradise?"--BOOK JACKET
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Ender Wiggin's comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of Rotterdam, to his student days at the Battle School, and to his role as Ender's right hand ally, strategist, and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien invaders.
Author
Language
English
Description
Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their motherâs narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasnât been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three âtest tubeâ daughtersâgifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Averyâwere engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest lives fall far short of her grand ambitions. But now, twenty...
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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....
Author
Series
Talents trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness--a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort...
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...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her family decides to spend the summer in Milwaukee so that her adopted brother can perfect his genius at a special piano school, Erin finds herself consumed with jealousy and turns to a medium for help.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
12) Fault lines
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"...Traces four generations of a single family from present-day California to WW II Cera Germany. Fault Lines begins with Sol, a gifted, terrifying child whose mother believes he is destined for greatness partly because he has a birthmark like his dad, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. When Sol's family makes an unexpected trip to Germany, secrets begin to emerge about their history during World War II. It seems birthmarks are not all that's...
13) Archibald Frisby
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Archibald Frisby, mad about science and wise beyond his years, is sent to camp to have fun and ends up broadening the horizons of his fellow campers.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, and Korea. While in Paris Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Separated for long periods of time, their final...
Author
Series
Margaret and Maizon trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1994, c1992
Language
English
Description
After winning a scholarship to an academically challenging boarding school, Maizon finds herself one of only five blacks there and wonders if she will ever fit in.
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
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...
18) The soloist
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1995], c1994
Language
English
Description
Renne Sundheimer's life as a cello teacher is abruptly changed by two events: his participation as a juror in a murder trial, and his association with a new student, a Korean prodigy who reminds him of his own past.
19) Fresh air
Author
Series
Lucinda Hunter novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.
20) Catching genius
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Estranged years ago after one of them had been declared a math prodigy, sisters Connie and Estella reunite when their childhood home is put up for sale, a situation that forces them to confront painful circumstances in their lives.