Accent on Essential Life Skills: a Resource Book of ‘How To’ Skills for Mind, Body and Spirit. Otto Schmidt, $35.00

The 48 skills presented in Accent on Essential Life Skills are cross-curricular competency skills. The detailed and practical activities in this book are suitable at primary, junior, intermediate, senior, adult, gifted and special education levels. The activities empower students and help them improve their self-awareness, creativity, communication, thinking, research, personal and spiritual and leadership skills.

Being Smart about Gifted Education: a Guidebook for Parents and Educators, 2nd Edition. Dona Mathews & Joanne Foster, $29.95

Written for both parents and educators, Being Smart about Gifted Education presents practical strategies to help parents and educators identify and nurture exceptionally high ability in children.

Bright Not Broken — Gifted Kids, ADHD and Autism: Why Twice-Exceptional Children are Stuck and How to Help Them. Diane Kennedy & Rebecca Banks, $29.95

The gifts and talents of some of our most brilliant kids may never be recognized because these children fall into a group known as twice exceptional. Twice exceptional kids are both gifted and diagnosed with a disability — often ADHD or an Autism Spectrum Disorder — leading teachers and parents to overlook the child's talents and focus solely on his weaknesses. Too often, these children get lost in an endless cycle of chasing diagnostic labels and are never given the tools to fully realize their own potential.

BRIGHT NOT BROKEN sheds new light on this vibrant population by identifying who twice exceptional children are and taking an unflinching look at why they're stuck. The first work to boldly examine the widespread misdiagnosis and controversies that arise from our current diagnostic system, it serves as a wake-up call for parents and professionals to question why our mental health and education systems are failing our brightest children. Most importantly, the authors show what we can do to help these exceptional children, providing a whole child model for parents and educators to strengthen and develop a child's innate gifts while also intervening to support the deficits.

Challenge Math for the Elementary and Middle School Student, 2nd Edition. Edward Zaccaro, $28.95

Difficult concepts in mathematics are explained in an easy to understand format using cartoons and drawings.  This makes self-learning easy for students and for any teacher whose math skills are a little rusty! Each chapter is presented in three levels — challenging, very challenging and extremely challenging — to help teachers design a curriculum that helps bright and gifted math students develop their math skills.

Includes chapters on: Astronomy • Problem Solving • Algebra  • Percents  • Fractions  • Decimals  • Ratio and Proportions  • Physics  • Statistics  • Probability  • Metric System  • Perimeters  • Areas  • Volumes  • Trigonometry  • Calculus

Curriculum Development Kit for Gifted and Advanced Learners. Sandra Kaplan & Michael Cannon, $47.95

A comprehensive kit for building curriculum that includes a teacher’s guide, 24 catalyst cards, 12 curriculum grids and instructions on Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity Model  for teaching gifted and advanced students.

Curriculum Development and Teaching Strategies for Gifted Learners, 3rd Edition. June Maker & Shirley Schiever, $45.95 Grades K-12

Curriculum Development and Teaching Strategies for Gifted Learners provides practical, relevant information as well as the latest research available to support classroom teachers, coordinators, and specialists in teaching gifted students.

Developing Math Talent: a Comprehensive Guide to Math Education for Gifted Students in Elementary and Middle School, 2nd Edition. Susan Assouline & Ann Lupowski-Shoplik, $35.95

Build student success in math with the only comprehensive parent and teacher guide for developing math talent among advanced learners. The authors  offer a focused look at educating gifted and talented students for success in math. More than just a guidebook for educators and parents, this book offers a comprehensive approach to mathematics education for gifted students of elementary or middle school age. The book provides concrete suggestions for identifying mathematically talented students, tools for instructional planning, and specific programming approaches.

Differentiating the Curriculum for Gifted Learners. Wendy Conklin & Shelly Frei, $29.50

A great tool for new teachers and pre-service educators, this resource provides up-to-date, research-based theory and practical applications to help teachers effectively differentiate instruction with gifted students in mind. Packed with background information, underlying principles, plus extension, acceleration, and enrichment ideas, this book helps teachers to identify gifted students and their needs.

Gifted children show characteristic behavior patterns at different ages. They see the world through their own eyes and seldom understand that others are different in their interests, energy, and wisdom … Dr. Webb describes the traits and common behaviors of gifted children from preschool through adolescence, along with the challenges and reactions that gifted children often experience.

Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: a Practical Guide, 2nd Edition. Susan Rakow, $39.00

Understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school offer unique challenges. The impact of current reform movements, Response to Intervention, new relevant research, updated information on middle school boys and other special populations, changing middle grade configurations, and 21st century skills are added to the already thorough discussions of the first edition. Resources, references, and suggested curriculum materials have all been updated.

The focus of this second edition continues to be on helping teachers, administrators, and parents to understand gifted middle school students, implement effective program models, define the role of the gifted teacher, identify best practices for the classroom, and apply curriculum ideas that are effective and research-based. EDUCATING GIFTED STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL focuses on creative, practical, and realistic school solutions that create a vital and responsive school community for all students.

Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings. Christine Fonesca, $22.95

Designed to provide support for the difficult job of parenting and teaching gifted children, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides the resource parents and teachers need to not only understand why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior, but also learn specific strategies to teach gifted children how to live with their intensity.

Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students uses real-world examples through case studies and role-plays that show parents and teachers how to interact with gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Worksheets, tip sheets, and checklists are included to help parents, teachers, and the students themselves learn to cope with the explosive feelings that often accompany giftedness. Specific strategies for stress management, underperformance in school, perfectionism, and social anxiety make this a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.

The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens: Ready-to-Use Group Discussions about Identity, Stress, Relationships, and More (Book and CD-ROM). Jean Sunde Peterson, $49.95 (grades 6-12)

The 70 guided discussions in this book are an affective curriculum for gifted teens. Each session is self-contained and step-by-step; many include reproducible handouts. Introductory and background materials help even less-experienced group leaders feel prepared and secure in their role. For advising teachers, counselors, and youth workers in all kinds of school and group settings working with gifted kids in grades 6–12. The CD-ROM (for PC and Macintosh) features all of the reproducible student forms from the book.

Expert Approaches to Support Gifted Learners: Professional Perspectives, Best Practices and Positive Solutions. Margaret Gosfield, editor, $36.50

Because of the unique social and emotional needs faced by gifted learners—not to mention the unique academic needs—teaching and parenting them can be as demanding as it is rewarding. This book is sensitive, positive, and packed with ideas and up-to-date facts.

Gifted Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Maureen Neihart & Kenneth Poon, $14.95

Like other twice-exceptional children, gifted children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are sometimes forced to choose between addressing the concerns of one exceptionality over another. Gifted Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders describes instructional and behavior management strategies for the most common challenges teachers face with gifted children with ASD so that the abilities of these children can be developed to their fullest potential.

Gifted Education Strategies for All. Joseph Renzulli & Marcia Gentry, $12.95(Laminated Reference Guide)

This reference guide provides a comprehensive understanding of how the gifts and talents of all students can be met through the use of Enrichment Clusters. Enrichment Clusters engage students and facilitators in interest-based, student-driven, real-world learning experiences.

This reference guide provides valuable information on how principals and teachers can implement Enrichment Clusters, including guidelines for design, scheduling issues, and tips for evaluation. Some exemplars are also provided to assist with the design. Learn a powerful way to provide gifted education strategies to all of your students.

Gifted Lives: What Happens when Gifted Children Grow Up. Joan Freeman, $19.95

This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over the last thirty-five years by award-winning psychologist, Joan Freeman, these fascinating accounts reveal the frustrations and triumphs of her participants, and investigate why some fell by the wayside while others reached fame and fortune.

High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information and Personal Stories from the Experts. Edited by Kiesa Kay, Deborah Robson & Judy Fort Brenneman, $24.95

Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It’s assumed they’re smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) feel out of their depth with these unique kids. High IQ Kids addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages. Recommended for any adult who wants to know more (and may be desperate to know more) about high-IQ kids and how to support them, advocate for them, and meet their social, emotional and learning needs.

How the Gifted Brain Learns, 2nd Edition. David Sousa, $43.95

How the Gifted Brain Learns helps educators turn research on the brain function of intellectually and artistically advanced students into practical classroom activities and strategies. Building on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, learning, and the nature of intelligence, this book examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.

Identifying Gifted Students: a Practical Guide. Susan Johnsen, Editor, $33.95

The newly revised Identifying GIFTED STUDENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE is designed for practicing professionals such as teachers, counselors, psychologists, and administrators.  The book addresses definitions, models, and characteristics of gifted students; qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment; culturally fair and nonbiased assessment; and how to evaluate the effectiveness of identification procedures. In addition, the book provides a complete summary of all major assessment instruments, including scoring information, reliability, and validity.

Infinity & Zebra Stripes: Life with Gifted Children. Wendy Skinner, $19.95

Author Wendy Skinner shares her experiences of raising two highly gifted children. Parent s of gifted children will identify with her efforts to provide emotional, social and academic support to two very challenging children.

Is My Child Gifted? (If so, what can I expect?) James Webb (DVD format, 45 minutes) $33.95

Often children are identified in their schools as gifted, but parents and teachers are not given training in the traits that gifted children most often show. Some parents question whether their child really is gifted. Dr. Webb describes the most common basic characteristics of gifted children, and then shows how some of these traits (thinking and learning styles of gifted children) can actually result in underachievement, power struggles and failure to be recognized as bright.

Kids Who Think Outside the Box: Helping Your Unique Child Thrive in a Cookie-Cutter World. Stephanie Lerner, $17.00

What were today's leaders like as children and teens, and what brought out their incredible talents? In this unusual book, 22 achievers from such diverse fields as business, science, technology, the arts, sports, education and politics talk about their own early experiences, offering candid insights on mentoring and empowering children with high potential. First person narratives include:

• Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney
• Rachael Scdoris, athlete, Iditarod Race competitor
• Producer and actor Spike Lee
• Hockey legend Rod Gilbert
• Artist, filmmaker, teacher Christine Choy
• Dr. Mehmet Oz , world-renowned heart surgeon
• Naturalist and South Pole explorer Tori Murden McClure and others

Kids Who Think Outside the Box is a very readable blend of first-hand accounts, practical tools and resources. Though the resources are all American, the book will help readers everywhere tap the vast potential in every child by presenting strategies for parents, teachers, and others to support a child's natural inclinations and gifts, whatever they may be.

Life in the Fast Brain: Keeping Up with Gifted Minds. Karen Isaacson, $18.95

Enjoy these comical stories of the things that gifted kids do and say, and discover the wit and wonder of this mother of five — living proof that the life of a parent raising gifted children is always full of surprises!

Light Up Your Child’s Mind. Joseph Renzulli  & Sally Reis, $28.99

Light Up Your Child’s Mind presents a practical program to help children fire up a love of learning to last a lifetime. The book helps parents uncover the hidden potential of daydreamers, rebels, and one-track minds, and argues that gifted behavior — basic smarts, high levels of task commitment and creativity — can be fostered in bright children, even unmotivated ones.

Living with Intensity. Edited by Susan Daniels & Michael Piechowski, $31.95

Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional.

Living with Intensity describes these over-excitabilities and provides practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism and much more from early childhood through adolescence and adulthood.

Making Great Kids Greater: Easing the Burden of Being Gifted. Dorothy Sisk, $42.50

Empower gifted students by helping them understand and value their talents, with consideration for their unique needs socially, academically and emotionally.

More Than a Test Score: Teens Talk about Being Gifted, Talented or Otherwise Extra-ordinary. Robert Schultz & James Delisle, $20.95 (ages 14 and up)

Based on a survey of thousands of gifted teens, More Than a Test Score is filled with stories, insights, honesty and humour that will surprise you and inspire you. You’ll read their thoughts about their friends, family, the future and al of the challenges that come with being gifted.

On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, 4th Edition. Tracy Cross, $29.99

A concise, sensitive look at gifted children and their world, this book offers unique insights for both teachers and parents.

101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids: the Ultimate Handbook. Christine Fonesca, $16.95 (ages 8-12)

Chock full of fun suggestions and practical strategies, 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids covers topics including bullying, school performance, perfectionism, friendships, and sibling rivalries. Fun quizzes, tip sheets, and practical Q & A sections from other gifted kids and preteens make this book fun to read and give gifted kids insight into everything they've ever wanted to know about being gifted. Proven strategies for dealing with stress management, parents' and teachers' expectations, anxiety, cyber-bullying, friendship troubles, and more make this the must-have guide for every gifted kid!

Ordinary Gifted Children: the Power and Promise of Individual Attention. Jessica Hoffman Davis, $27.50

This is the remarkable story of the Hoffman School for Individual Attention, where the principal believed in a diverse, challenging and challenged group of students — with extraordinary results.

The Overachievers: the Secret Lives of Driven Kids. Alexandra Robbins, $17.50

In The Overachievers, journalist Alexandra Robbins delivers a poignant, funny, riveting narrative that explores how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control … Robbins tackles hard-hitting issues such as the student and teacher cheating epidemic, over-testing, sports rage, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that some students are driven to depression and suicide because of a B. Even the earliest years of schooling have become insanely competitive, as Robbins learned when she gained unprecedented access into the inner workings of a prestigious Manhattan kindergarten admissions office. A compelling mix of fast-paced storytelling and engrossing investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.

Parenting Gifted Children. Edited by Jennifer Jolly, et al, $24.95

This comprehensive guide covers topics such as working with high achievers and young gifted children, acceleration, advocating for talented students, and serving as role models and mentors for gifted kids, homeschooling, underachievement, twice-exceptional students and postsecondary opportunities.

This book is sure to provide guidance, advice and support for any parent of gifted children.

Parenting Successful Children. James Webb (DVD format, 45 minutes) $33.95

In his new video presentation, noted psychologist James T. Webb, PhD, discusses how technology and other changes in today's ever-evolving world have made parenting even more difficult. Dr. Webb describes in detail over two dozen practical strategies to help parents become more successful at setting limits, avoiding power struggles, minimizing sibling rivalry, promoting self-direction, and enhancing overall relationships within the family. All the ideas are easy for parents to implement into everyday living. This video is an excellent resource for both schools and parent groups.

Parents’ Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education. David Palmer, $17.95

Author, researcher and educational psychologist David Palmer tells parents everything they need to know to make the right decisions for their child when it comes to testing and gifted education. Including a section on bright kids with learning problems, this informative book covers the broad range of needs that exceptional kids have and what it takes to help them reach their full potential.

Raising a Gifted Child: a Parenting Success Handbook. Carol Fertig, $18.99

This book offers a wide array of strategies, tips, resources, practical suggestions and the tools parents need to ensure that their gifted kids are happy and successful in and out of school.

Raising Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Exceptional Child Thrive. Barbara Klein, $18.50

Extremely bright children are many things — quick, curious, sensitive and introspective to name a few. Being the parent of a gifted child can be challenging for many reasons. Raising Gifted Kids is an upbeat, practical guide to parenting, filled with proven solutions and helpful advice.

Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom: a Guide to Alternative Programs and Services. Joyce Van Tassel-Baska, $35.50

Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom provides a concise and thorough introduction to the various types of out-of-school programming recommended and appropriate for gifted and advanced learners.

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential. Rich Weinfeld, Linda Barnes-Robinson, Sue Jeweler & Betty Roffman Shevitz, $19.95

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties provides useful, practical advice for helping smart kids with learning challenges such as AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, Dyslexia and other learning disabilities to succeed in school. The authors present learning and teaching methods that have been applied successfully to both the gifted/talented and the learning-disabled populations. These methods can, and should, be used with all bright kids with learning difficulties, whether or not they have official labels.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child’s True Potential. Eileen Kennedy Moore & Mark Lowenthal, $19.95

It takes more than school-smarts to create a fulfilling life. In fact, many bright children face special challenge. Smart Parenting for Smart Kids is a compassionate book that explains the reasons behind these struggles. It offers parents practical strategies for helping children develop the essential skills they need to make the most of their abilities and become capable, caring, confident adults.

Smart Talk: What Kids Say About Growing Up Gifted. Robert Schultz & James Delisle, $17.95 (ages 8 to 13)

Being gifted has its ups and downs — the kids in this book talk about both the advantages and disadvantages of growing up gifted. As you read what they have to say, you’ll learn more about being gifted — and more about being yourself.

Social-Emotional Curriculum with Gifted and Talented Students. Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Tracy Cross & Richard Olenchak, $41.95

Social-Emotional Curriculum with Gifted and Talented Students provides a thorough introduction to methods for developing social-emotional curricula for use with gifted and talented learners in the school setting. The book discusses  affective curricula, the needs of minority students, models to develop social-emotional curricula, tips for counseling gifted students, and strategies to promote the social-emotional needs of gifted students, the use of bibliotherapy and discussion groups, and the teacher-counselor connection in affective curricula.

Teacher’s Survival Guide: Gifted Education. Julia Link Roberts & Julia Roberts Boggess, $22.95

This practical guide offers tip for classroom success for working with gifted kids. The book covers topics essential to gifted education teachers, including recognizing and identifying giftedness, classroom management, establishing parent-teacher relationships, encouraging creativity, providing enriched learning environments and more.

Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies & Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented, Revised Edition. Susan Winebrenner, $43.99 Includes CD-ROM

Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom has long been the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixed-abilities classroom—without losing control, causing resentment, or spending hours preparing extra materials. This new edition is even better and now includes the CD-ROM (for Windows and Macintosh) with all of the reproducible forms from the book, plus many additional extensions menus in several subject areas—more than 80 forms in all. You can print them out when you need them and even customize more forms for your classroom and students.

Teaching Gifted Students in the Inclusive Classroom. Tracy Riley, $14.95

Appropriate learning for gifted and talented students is adjusted in pace, depth and breadth through curricula that are both enriched and accelerated. This book provides teachers with practical strategies for identifying and meeting the abilities and needs of these students through differentiation in general classroom settings.

20 Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School and High School. Joel McIntosh, $22.95 Grades 5–12

Great activities and lessons for secondary gifted kids developed by master teachers across the nation. This exciting book features ideas for starting a mentorship program, teaching history using scientific surveys, using simulations to teach content, organizing historical debates, producing documentaries and much more.

Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching and Counseling Gifted Students. Beverly Trail, $27.95

Gifted students with disabilities, also referred to as twice-exceptional children, need strategies in order to find success in the regular classroom. This comprehensive text provides an overview of who these students are, how teachers can tap into their strengths and weaknesses, and what educational strategies should be implemented to help these students succeed in school and beyond. The book will guide a collaborative team step-by-step through the process of identifying students’ needs, selecting modifications and accommodations, and developing a comprehensive plan to meet the diverse needs of twice-exceptional children. By implementing the strategies suggested in this book, teachers of twice-exceptional gifted students can ensure these students do not just survive in the classroom, but thrive.

Young Gifted and Bored. David George, $29.95

Many gifted and talented children are bored and frustrated in the classroom. This practical guide will challenge, excite and inspire teachers and show them how they can identify and provide for the needs of these children, and help them develop their strengths and talents in productive, inspiring ways.