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1) Matilda
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English
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
2) Supergifted
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Series
Ungifted volume 2
Language
English
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Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he's landed in the perfect place to do it-Donovan's school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock...
3) Ungifted
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Series
Language
English
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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.
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Michael Vey volume 7
Language
English
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing.
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Baby Brains volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A musically gifted baby is invited to play the electric guitar at a star-studded rock concert.
8) Lucas
Author
Publisher
Oceano Travesía
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Lucas is considered to be a poor student because he is different from the others and has his own ideas about what is interesting or worthwhile, but he ends by surprising everyone.
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Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2014.
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.
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Millicent Min series volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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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.
11) Gifted
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Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Arrogant, mentally gifted George Clark has dreaded the eighth-grade class camping trip and its inevitable bullying, but a hurricane and a friend's loyalty make him realize what is important in life.
12) Golden ticket
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2022]
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.
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Pennybaker School volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
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Jake the fake volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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.
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Publisher
Alazar Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gus is a most promising, most energetic and most talented young dancer who figures out how to make enough money to upgrade his tip-a-tap thumbtack sneakers to a new pair of real tap shoes that could slap-a-dee-dap, slap-a-dee-dap on a real dance floor. He uses his public street dancing and thumbtack shoes to tap his way down the sidewalk and right up to the big red door of the dance studio.
17) Good enough
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
Getting 100 % on the SATs, or getting a date with a cute trumpet player? Scoring top honors in youth orchestra, or scoring tickets to a punk rock concert? Following your parents' dreams to an Ivy league college, or following your heart? It's senior year, and Patti Yoon is...
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Farah rocks volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
20) A star is born
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Series
Cruisers volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.
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