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1) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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.
3) Checkmate
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying to buy drugs.
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 5
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. One-Zero won't stop until the whole town--no, the whole world--embraces the "true happiness" found in his poisonous potion, Green Pop. And now that he has the Turtle of Light, he's virtually unstoppable. There's one weapon that can defeat him: another Turtle of Light. Unfortunately, they can only be found in another dimension! To open a portal to this new world, Hopper, Eni, and Josh's coding skills will be put to the test.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Zero hour
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overlord needs the secret location of H.I.V.E. to get close to Otto, and Nero is protecting Otto.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters written to a post office box, twelve-year-old Cadence describes her father's hospitalization for depression, her subsequent problems at school, and her hope that the mysterious recipient will help her find a happy ending.
11) Solving Zoe
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Zoe's sixth-grade year at a Brooklyn school for gifted students is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students and teachers, recognition of her talent for cryptography, and a greater awareness of her passion.
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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.
13) Genius games
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jack's difficulties in dealing with his younger sister Annie, a child genius, worsen when Annie claims to have a new friend from the twenty-fifth century and Jack worries that this development will keep him from going to visit his father in America.
14) A star is born
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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.
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Michael's days as a happy underachiever are over when he accidentally eats a nanochip loaded with information and becomes his own worst nightmare: a know-it-all, held up as an example by his teachers, and hated by everyone in the student body. What has happened to the old Michael? Is the underachiever gone for good?
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.