Being Smart about Gifted Education: a Guidebook for Parents and Educators, 2nd Edition. Dona Mathews & Joanne Foster, $31.50

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.

Creative Activities for Gifted Readers: Dynamic Investigations, Challenging Projects and Energizing Assignments (Grades 3-6). Anthony Fredericks, $18.95

Gifted students demand original, fresh, and mind-expanding activities that stimulate their creativity and enhance high-level thinking abilities. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers provides that and more!

Developing Math Talent: a Guide for Educating Gifted and Advanced Learners in Math. Susan Assouline & Ann Lupowski-Shoplik, $33.50

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 … providing concrete suggestions for identifying mathematically talented students, tools for instructional planning, and specific programming approaches.

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.

Encouraging Your Child’s Math Talent: the Involved Parents’ Guide. Michael Bossé & Jennifer Rotigel, $18.25

Parents of kids who show precocious advanced math ability will love Encouraging Your Child's Math Talent — a comprehensive, helpful guide to supporting a child's mathematical talent. The authors guide parents in recognizing advanced math ability in their children, working with the school system to ensure children get the math education they need and deserve, encouraging children to pursue their mathematical interests outside of school, and tips for connecting a child's math ability to his or her everyday interests.

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, $15.50

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.

Grandparents, with their greater life experiences, have a great deal to offer a child who is gifted. Grandparents' Guide to Gifted Children includes:

• early signs of giftedness
• special needs of gifted children
• areas of concern; unique roles of grandparents
• building a bond with a grandchild
• maximizing grandparenting
• education plans
• when a grandparent is the parent
• leaving a personal legacy

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.

Hothouse Kids: the Dilemma of the Gifted Child. Alissa Quart, $18.50

A vital investigation of the pressures on today's gifted children and the troubling long-term consequences for their lives. Alissa Quart's penetrating in-depth examination provides a much-needed wake-up call that will spark a national debate about this urgent issue.

How the Gifted Brain Learns. David Sousa, $57.95

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.

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) $34.95

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, $19.95

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.

Mind Workout for Gifted Kids. Robert Allen, $21.99 (two books, packaged together in a vinyl binder)

This exciting two-book set was written and designed especially for parents who recognize a special alertness in their child, perhaps a precocious knack for problem solving or verbal expression. Volume I is for parents, and Volume II is for kids.

Volume I: Comprehensive Guide for Parents speaks directly to parents, offering insights to help them assess and guide their child’s intellectual growth and helps parents determine their child’s special aptitudes, whether in math, creative thinking, or some other area.

Volume II: Games and Puzzles is a fun activity book for kids with approximately 100 challenging puzzles and games that will stretch budding intellects and imaginations. Readers are challenged to find patterns in sequences of numbers and letters, discover hidden words in cryptograms, solve visual puzzles by connecting dots with straight lines, identify famous people and historic dates in scrambled word and number puzzles, and much more.

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.

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 Successful Children. James Webb (DVD format, 45 minutes) $34.95

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.

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 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.

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, $45.95 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.

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.