Author: Sara Pennypacker
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Keywords: clementine, talented
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 078683871X
ISBN-13: 9780786838714
Winner or washout?When it comes to tackling third grade, Clementine is at the top of her game—okay, so maybe not all the time. After her teacher announces that the third and fourth graders will be putting on a talent show, Clementine panics. She doesn’t sing or dance or play an instrument. She can’t even hop with finesse. And as if she didn’t feel bad enough, her perfect best friend, Margaret, has so many talents, she has to alphabetize them to keep them straight… As the night of the big "Talent-palooza" draws closer, Clementine is desperate for an act, any act. But
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: ripley, talented
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393332144
ISBN-13: 9780393332148
Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith’s classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton. Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fond
Author: Barbara Neely
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: tenth, talented, among, blanche
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0140250360
ISBN-13: 9780140250367
The heroine of the top-selling mystery Blanche on the Lam--black domestic worker extraordinaire, accidental sleuth Blanche White--is enlisted to use her considerable wiles to discover the link between a suicide and a murder, and uncovers a web of secrets that someone may be willing to kill for.
Author: Diane Montgomery
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: underachievers, talented, gifted
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0470779403
ISBN-13: 9780470779408
A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards. Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement Explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement The UK Government’s 2005 White Paper ’Higher Standards, Better Schools for All’ set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&a
Author: Kerry Ann Scrivanich
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: adventure, talented, amp, gifted
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1449085024
ISBN-13: 9781449085025
Author: Geoff Dea
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: years, students, talented, gifted, english
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-28
List price: $111.00
ISBN-10: 1412936047
ISBN-13: 9781412936040
Are you stuck for ways to stretch your best English students? By focusing on what excites and motivates all learners, this book provides you with a clear guide to ensuring sound provision for your gifted and talented students. Included is advice on: o how to identify more able students o what to do to get other staff on board o successful strategies for working with more able students o using ICT effectively in lessons and activities o how to measure students’ progress o personalised learning. There is an accompanying CD which contains some photocopiable material and this will help
Authors:Frances A. Karnes, Tracy L. Riley,
Publisher: Prufrock Press
Keywords: kids, talented, competitions
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1593631561
ISBN-13: 9781593631567
This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date listing of national competitions available for students. Ideal for students and families seeking scholarship money and national recognition for skills and abilities in academics, the arts, leadership, and community involvement, Competitions for Talented Kids is the ultimate guide for winning and learning from competitions. In addition to its extensive listing of competitions, the book includes a unique Competitions Journal that helps students record their progress and success.In this completely revised and expanded edition, students will find a treasu
