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=Welcome to the Great Books for Gifted Kids Wikispace!=

The goal of this wiki is to provide teachers of gifted and talented students a place to start when looking for great books for gifted kids. Here you'll find suggested books and information about those books. In addition, I hope teachers will post or link to great lesson plans using the books suggested here.

Feel free to link, discuss, comment, and add pages on books you suggest.**To be included here, a book must:** > It also helps if it's a book of high quality, such as award winners.
 * 1) **feature a character who exhibits gifted and talented characteristics**
 * 2) **deal with some issue that gifted children often face.**

When you add a page about a book, be sure to add it to Summary Chart called **The Books!** in the navigation bar. That's how others will find it.

Each individual book page should include the following, if possible: Title: Author: Illustrators: Publisher & Date: Basics: Main Character(s): Bibliotherapy question: Reviews: Personal recommendation: Links to lessons: Other: (e.g.: Wordle, links to author interview, student book review) Posted by:
 * Ages:
 * Type (picture, chapter, young adult, adult):
 * Length:
 * Themes (issues related to gifted, e.g. asynchrony, peers, introversion, sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism):
 * Name(s):
 * Age(s):
 * Characteristics of giftedness (e.g. advanced vocabulary, imaginational overexcitability - see Silverman's List or the Overexcitabilities):