GIFTED

1. [Free pdf] Gifted Gifted Beth Evangelista *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks #776563 in Books Walker Childrens 2007-07-01 2007-06-26Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .33 x .2 x 5.27l, .40 #File Name: 0802796443192 pages | File size: 40.Mb Beth Evangelista : Gifted before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Gifted: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 5 stars!By VeggieI didn't read this book but my reluctant reader did and LOVED it! That's worth a review right there!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gifted is one of the best books my son and I read togetherBy Russell PersonGifted is one of the best books my son and I read together. Right up there with Clements and Philbrick!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four starsBy TP

2. Trading Corp/Miguel ParedesThis review is here because it was an excellent book!!!Humor and adventure are all you can find in this book Sometimes brains aren't everything.George R. Clark is gifted. Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve. Most of his classmates avoid him-if he's lucky. Until the Bruise Brothers, the intellectually challenged members of the school football team, decide they want George to pass a test of their own design.Only the fact that George's father is the school principal has saved him in the past. But his father isn't going on the eighth grade science field trip, and George has a feeling it's going to be open season on dorks. Suddenly thrown into a crash course on human nature, without his father to protect him, the most intellectually gifted kid in the eighth-grade might actually learn something before the end of the trip . . . if he survives it. This witty novel provides a different perspective on bullying and the battle of brains versus brawn. From School Library JournalGrade 4-7George Clark would be the first to tell you that he is gifted. He is about the smartest eighth grader in his school and has science-fair ribbons to prove it. For someone so smart, though, his social skills leave much to be desired. Most of the time he is protected from bullies he annoys with his mouthiness since his father is the school principal. Now, however, he is going on a class trip without his dad. The journey to the camp is relatively uneventful; even the football team isn't picking on him for a change. George thinks that just maybe the guys are coming around. They talk him into the game of smearing mustard all over the teacher chaperone; however, George gets set up big time and has to do chores for punishment. To retaliate, he locks the Bruise Brothers in an unused bunkerthen he's glad to be around the teachers. The story takes a hard-to-believe turn when the campers must evacuate due to a hurricane warning, the abruptness of which, in light of recent events, stretches the imagination a bit. No one knew about the storm before the trip? In the chaos of leaving, George is attacked and left behind. He finds shelter and, in the storm, finds one of his tormentors severely injured. George helps him and, in the process, has a change in attitude. No longer lonely and dorky, he tutors the football team and runs track. Overall, the story is a light read with an obvious moral.Diana Pierce, Running Brushy Middle School, Cedar Park, TX Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From Booklist*Starred * Gr. 5-8. Everybody knows a kid like George R. Clark--a gifted student, and well aware of it. Obnoxious. Pompous. It's hard to write a successful book with an unlikable protagonist (especially when it is narrated in his voice), but that's what first-time author Evangelista has done. When his father (the school principal) insists that he go on the eighth-grade camping trip, George worries that his tormenters, known collectively as the Bruise Brothers, will corner him, and he'll have only his best friend, Anita, to protect him. Yet at first Worm (George's nickname) seems to have turned lucky. Do the Bruise Brothers want to be his friends? Well, no. Their kindness is a ruse to make George responsible for a joke that infuriates one of the teacher-chaperones. George determines to fight back, but he has few resources. It takes a hurricane for him to understand who he is, why people loathe him, and what to do about it. Evangelista avoids pitfalls throughout; the characters could easily have been stereotypes, and the hurricane adeus ex machina. The bullies are of a piece, but George's teacher--with whom he unexpectedly bonds and with whom he shares more than a few characteristics--is exceptionally multilayered. And because George is such an individual, other characters seem real juxtaposed against him. Because the description of the hurricane is so carefully crafted, it never seems a canned event; consequently, George's turnaround is believable. Fresh and funny. Ilene CooperCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedAbout the AuthorBeth Evangelista lives and writes in the Philadelphia area. Her favorite things in the world are reading, writing, watching submarine movies, eating Hershey bars, and being with her husband and three sons. Gifted is her first novel.