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Language
English
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"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"--
22) Zero hour
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Overlord needs the secret location of H.I.V.E. to get close to Otto, and Nero is protecting Otto.
23) Escape velocity
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Language
English
Description
Otto must get out and break into MI6.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Mutant Underground are at their new HQ in Washington D.C., stuck in the middle of an increasingly polarized nation, as both anti-mutant sentiment and the mutant rights movement are on the rise. The X-Men believed that mutants and humans could live together in peace, but now that dream hangs in the balance.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Being a child prodigy in East Texas can be challenging, but it can also make you the most popular student on your college campus. When thirteen-year-old undergrad Sheldon Cooper creates a database, his professors clamor for a partnership, but this puts him at odds with the university. Meanwhile, the relationship between his parents, George Sr. and Mary, hits a rough patch, causing his twin sister, Missy, to take off in their dad2s truck. Big brother...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
A heartwarming comedic film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora, Mexico, Jerema's a bright misfit and pessimistic eight-year-old, finds out he is a gifted child and initiates a journey of self-discovery to find out what he wants to be when he grows up.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan head to China in search of a girl who may have discovered why Michael and his friends became electric. Her name is Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, and she's a child prodigy with an IQ higher than Einstein's-and Ostin's.
Author
Series
Pennybaker School volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are happening at Pennybaker School for the Uniquely Gifted, and sixth-grader Thomas Fallgrout must stage a revolution to set them right.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. 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...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
עברית
Description
It's the story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. Nira discovers that her young student Yoav has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, and becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift, but when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect the purity of his...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" A spirited debut of a rising basketball star wrestling with his town's outsized expectations and his family's complicated legacy Jimmy "Kamikaze" Kirkus is a basketball star, destined for a legendary future in the NBA. At the age of five, he can make nine shots in a row. By high school, he's got his own Sports Illustrated profile. To the citizens of Columbia City, it seems like he was born for the sport. But Jimmy soon confronts the "Kirkus curse"...
Author
Series
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An engaging study of the nerd in American popular culture and throughout history discussed in such contexts as the rise of online gaming, the science fiction club, ethnicity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, and high school and college debating.
Author
Series
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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