Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITDelisle, James R.
Summary: Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. A follow-up to the best-selling "Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children," this new edition focuses on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness, highlighting new information on the issues of perfectionism, self-advocacy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prufrock Press Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 DELFonseca, Christine
Summary: "Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prufrock Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.95 FONHulbert, Ann
Summary: Presents an exploration of child genius through the stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted young people, from cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener and chess master Bobby Fischer to movie icon Shirley Temple and African-American musician Philippa Schuyler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.9509 HULShirai, Kaiu
Summary: "While attempting to locate the Seven Walls, Emma and Ray find themselves trapped in a mysterious world. Can they escape this labyrinth and make the promise that will finally bring about peace? Meanwhile, Norman has his own plans..." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PROShirai, Kaiu
Summary: "Life at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they had to take were tough, their loving caretaker provided them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But when they discover the horrifying truth about why they are being kept at the orphanage, their lives change forever... Emma and Ray race to the queen's chamber to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PROYang, Gene Luen
Summary: Dr. One-Zero won't stop until the whole world embraces his poisonous potion, Green Pop. Hopper, Eni and Josh must open a new portal to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC YANShirai, Kaiu
Summary: "Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems ... As Norman and his group prepare their plan to eradicate all of the demons, Emma searches for her own path that achieves peace without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PROLeyden, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. Fulton Publishers in association with the National Association for Able Children in Education 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.95 LEYEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse 2022
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series EvansCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVAVanderah, Glendy
Summary: A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANDekker, Ted
Summary: "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" --from the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Ted Dekker] 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series DekkerEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: "Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch's Electric Youth to their side ..."--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series EvansShirai, Kaiu
Summary: "The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late. Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... In order to wipe out the demons, Norman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PROKeating, Jess
Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEAKnipper, Stephanie
Summary: "In the spirit of Vanessa Diffenbaugh's The Language of Flowers--and with a touch of the magical--comes a spellbinding debut about a wondrously gifted child. Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNIDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DARHalsted, Judith Wynn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio Psychology Press 1994
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 025.535 HALJanowitz, Jessie
Summary: A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door. Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goes--or used to go when he plays chess. When he plays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JANVigan, Delphine de.
Summary: Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. But Lou is about to change her life - and that of her parents - for good, all because of a school project she decides to do about the homeless. Through the project Lou meets No, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions Jean-Claude Lattès 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 DEV FRENCHSummary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRI RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: During the new semester, Sheldon attends his first comic con and gets a group of nerdy friends while Missy begins questioning everything -- including religion and sex -- while Georgie takes a job at Meemaw's new laundromat-slash-gambling-den and the parents struggle at work and home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YoungSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUDeWitt, Helen
Summary: Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J.S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016