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21) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Author
Series
Millie Maven volume 2
Publisher
Ted Dekker
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Enter the world of Millie Maven, a twelve-year-old orphan who embarks on a great adventure that takes her to the distant, mysterious world of FIGS, the FarPointe Institute for Gifted Students. There, she discovers that there is more to her than she ever dared imagine or believe . . . and that there are some truths that change everything.
Author
Series
Millie Maven volume 3
Publisher
Ted Dekker
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this epic conclusion, Millie must face her greatest challenge if she is to discover the greatest truth, one that can save everything and everyone she cares about. But in order to do so, she will have to sacrifice everything. Is she strong enough to do what is being asked? Because if she can't, Millie and F.I.G.S. will be lost forever.
Author
Series
Millie Maven volume 1
Publisher
Ted Dekker
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Millie Maven, a fearful orphan girl who lives with her strict, evil aunt is trapped in a life of cruel punishment without any friends. So on the night of her twelfth birthday, when old Aggie of the woods invites her to take a journey that can change her life forever, Millie knows she has to go. Unsure but desperate, Millie embarks on a great adventure that takes her to the distant, mysterious world of FIGS, the FarPointe Institute for Gifted Students,...
28) Golden ticket
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The emotional story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared.
33) Ungifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at Brown and a titan in his field, might have the answers he...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
36) Paths & portals
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy―literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested...
37) The final spark
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing in this final volume of the series.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and her...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A once-celebrated kid detective, now in his early 30's, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity, until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case: to find out who brutally murdered her boyfrien
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
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