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1) Matilda
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey. As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach...
2) Ungifted
Author
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.
3) Supergifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume Book 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of attending a school for gifted children, Noah finds himself at a normal school where he immediately ends up on the wrong side of a cheerleading captain and a jock.
4) Good enough
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
5) No and me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the only member of the Pretty Committee clique not going on an exotic summer vacation, middle-schooler Kristen might just find romance sticking around to tutor math and attend a secret summer school for gifted students.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admission are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, anddoes not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community, Farah finds that the people are nice, and despite getting off...
11) The final spark
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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 matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which...
Author
Series
Sheena Meyers volume 07
Publisher
JOA Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before Sheena Meyer ever saw the archangel save her father. Before the strangest night of her life in the field, witnessing a battle between angels and the Murk. Before she found out she had to die. There was a vision. Sheena didńt know it, but that vision would determine her future. Sheena thought she knew how things worked́things like figuring out middle school and how to be a teenager. But most thirteen-year-olds didńt know about dark hope-stealing...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Author
Series
Millie Maven volume 1
Publisher
[Ted Dekker]
Pub. Date
2020.
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" --from the publisher.