Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.

Renne Sundheimer, child prodigy cellist, looses his talent suddenly at age eighteen. After years of teaching at a Southern California university, he finds another prodigy and becomes a juror in a murder trial.

Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya -- a man Artemis had thought he would never see again: his beloved father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them...

After years of attending a school for gifted children, Noah finds himself at a normal school where he immediately ends up on the wrong side of a cheerleading captain and a jock.

"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!"--Jacket. Matilda,...

Taking cues from a pulp novel, Dortmunder arranges a kidnapping Kelp has a plan, and John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. His friend Kelp is a jinx, and his schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a book.   In county lock-up for a traffic charge, Kelp came across a library of trashy novels by an author named Richard Stark. The hero is a thief named...

Eleven-year-old girl Ash McNulty struggles to keep up keep up with her fellow "Gifted and Talented" classmates, but when her plan to win the Quiz Bowl to show she is still on top backfires, she learns that there are many ways to be special.

Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their mothers narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasn't been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three test tube daughters gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery were engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest lives fall far short of her grand ambitions. But now, twenty years after the books release,...

Nathan Ward must collect three Grail relics before his own world, as well as the parallel worlds, can be destroyed by the evil Queen Nefufar.