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Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (142 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Parents and educators expect gifted children to be well-behaved, studious, and hard working. Why, then, do so many have trouble in school? According to Dr. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, perfectionism-the number one social-emotional trait of gifted children-can actually immobilize some children and cause social adjustment problems for others. This explains why so many of today's gifted children do not, or cannot, complete school assignments or even follow...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Few parents and educators understand special education_its terms, philosophies, and process. This easy-to-read book contains a step-by-step discussion of the special education process and has hundreds of additional resources for parents including professional organizations, support groups, and useful websites. It will help parents and students minimize the inevitable anxiety associated with enrolling in a special education program. They will also...
Author
Series
Universe after volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (138 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit has accumulated well over 1,000 questions asked by parents in her gifted parenting classes, her graduate students of gifted education, education...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Making ADHD a Gift explains, in everyday language, what ADHD is, how it is diagnosed, and how this condition can affect people throughout their lifetime. It also outlines methods of developing and assessing teaching strategies that can help individuals with ADHD both at home and at school. Unlike other texts, this book takes a positive look at having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Rather than trying to repress the characteristics of ADHD,...
7) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
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.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 29
Language
English
Description
Learning that a deceased former client's young prodigy son is being increasingly subjected to danger by greedy caregivers, Isabelle summons the Sisterhood to protect the boy and search for one of their own who has gone missing.
9) The prodigy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"William James Sidis (1898-1944) was born to a psychologist with some unorthodox ideas about child rearing, attended Harvard at an absurdly young age, only to fail to reach his potential. Wallace's book, the only biography of this most enigmatic of prodigies, gives us a balanced look at Sidis' up-bringing and a somewhat revisionist look at his later life."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wits Guts Gritis inspired by the many what-if questions acclaimed science writer and mother of two Jena Pincott asked herself as research on how the invisible forces that shape our minds and health has emerged and grown over the past decade. What if we identify the microbes that support stress resilience, find ways to expose our kids to them, and then test them? What if we reintroduce the mineral magnesium, deficient in almost every child's diet?...
Author
Series
Up-and-under volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework - without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable....
13) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000, c1993
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
16) Little man Tate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
17) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback [edition].
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Draper is a shy boy who learns the value of courage from his beloved companion, Puff. Then, Puff helps a yound girl deal with her parents' divorce. Lastly, Puff teaches a gifted boy to believe in his own creative abilities.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the widely praised Raising America, an eye-opening exploration of child genius and the parental and societal aspirations that accompany it. Off the Charts casts Americas current obsession with early high achievement in a new light, uncovering its history and offering insights into our ever less playful, increasingly purposeful ethos of childhood. Ann Hulbert examines in depth the lives of sixteen children whose extraordinary accomplishments...
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