Student Reading List

Non-fiction Titles

• The Gifted Kid's Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and under
• Gifted Kids Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook
• Extraordinary Young People by Marlene Targ Brill
• Alphabet Workbook for gifted preschoolers by Martha Cheney and Karol Kaminsky.
• More Questions & Answers: For Ages 6 to 8 by Bailey Kennedy and Larry Nolte
• Story Starters: Stories About Animals by Julie Koerner and Leo Abbett
• 101 Questions Your Brain Has Asked About Itself But Couldn't Answer Until Now by Faith Hickman Brynie
• Bringing up Parents: The Teenager's Handbook by Alex J. Packer
• Dibs in Search of Self  by Virginia Axline
• Smart Girls: A New Pyschology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness by Barbara Kerr
• Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good by Miriam Adderholdt-Elliott

Fiction

• The Drowning Boy by Susan Terris
• The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear by Kim PLatt
• Born of the Sun by Gillian Cross
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hanna Greene

Titles for Younger Middle School Gifted Students

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• The Great Whale by Richard W. Jennings
• Buried Onion by Gary Soto
• Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove
• Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
• Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
• Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
• Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• Cheating Lessons by Nan WIllard Cappo
• The Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg