Lending Library

Author
Title
Description
Adderholdt-Elliot, Miriam
Perfectionism:  What’s Bad About Being Too Good?  
Explore the difference between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism, strategies for getting out of the perfectionist trap, why people become perfectionists, why girls are especially prone...
Borba, Michele
Building Moral Intelligence
This book offers many practical insights, workable strategies, and inspiring stories, books, videos, and other family-friendly resources for intentionally teaching these crucial character strengths.  It will help anyone who lives or works with children to build the skills and moral values that make cruel, selfish, and destructive behavior unthinkable.
Clark, Barbara
Growing Up Gifted  
Offers interesting, information-packed introduction to the characteristics of the gifted and talented children
Delisle, Jim & Galbraith, Judy
When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers
Gifted kids are much more than test scores and grades.  Take a look from the inside out - their social and emotional needs, from self-esteem to perfectionism, stress, being different, and more...
Frankel, Fred & Wetmore, Barry
Good Friends Are Hard to Find:  Help your child find, make and keep friends
Step-by-step, parents learn to help their 5 to 12 year-olds make friends and solve problems with other kids.  This guide also offers concrete help for teasing, bullying and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and for the tormentor.  Based on the prestigious UCLA Children’s Social Skills Program, this book teaches clinically tested techniques that really work.
Galbraith, Judy
The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide:  for ages 10 & under
Examines the problems of gifted and talented students and explains how they can make the best use of their educational opportunities, get along better with parents and friends, and better understand themselves.
Galbraith, Judy & Delisle, Jim
The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide:  A Teen Handbook
Written with help from hundreds of gifted teenagers, this is the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in a world that doesn’t always value, support, or understand high ability.  Full of surprising facts, step-by-step strategies, practical how-to’s, and inspiring quotations, featuring insightful essays contributed by gifted young people and adults, this book gives you the tools you need to understand your giftedness, accept it as an asset (if you haven’t already), and use it to make the most of who you are.
Galbraith, Judy
You Know Your Child is Gifted When....:  A Beginner’s Guide to Life on the Bright Side
Lots of great stories of gifted kids, from verbal to humor, and lots of great quotes from the experts, all to get you started on your adventure with your gifted child
Goertzel, Goertzel, and Hansen
Cradles of Eminence, 2nd edition
Do eminent adults have common childhood experiences?  Did their parents help foster environments that could lead to eminence?  Readers are challenged to consider what factors will foster eminence in today’s world of mass media and technological change.
Goleman, Daniel
Emotional Intelligence  
(351 pages)
Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well.  These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—one he terms “emotional intelligence.”  While childhood is a critical time for its development, emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth.  It can be nurtured and strengthened throughout adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.
Halsted, Judith
Some of My Best Friends are Books
 
This guide for people who work with children and young people who are different from the norm by reason of giftedness or intense interests in intellectual, artistic, or musical areas examines the importance of books to capable students. It proposes that by reading and discussing books with children, parents and educators can meet two needs in one pleasurable activity: books can provide a focus for non-threatening discussions and books can improve the education of children. Indexes to the annotated bibliography include author, title, and category (such as identity, moral concerns, relationships with others, and perfectionism) indexes.
Isaacson, Karen L. J.
Raisin’ Brains, Surviving My Smart Family
Karen Isaacson’s real life anecdotes will keep you chuckling from cover to cover.  Underlying the humor are unique insights about giftedness, motivation, perfectionism, acceptance, and survival!  A light-hearted book for anyone who lives or works with creative individuals.
Karnes and Riley
Competitions:  Maximizing Your Abilities
In this book you will find a treasure trove of information on selecting, entering, and competing in contests.  This huge resource is a must for any student with the competitive spirit or talent that needs expression beyond the school walls.  It features a list of more than 275 competitions along with complete information on each.
Karnes and Riley
Competitions for Talented Kids
In this completely revised and expanded edition, students will find a treasure trove of information on selecting, entering, and competing in national contests.  The book also features complete information on who to contact, how to enter, prizes, judging criteria, contest origin, significant dates, and tips from the contest organizers themselves.  
Karnes and Stephens
Ultimate Guide to Collecting
A practical, hands-on guide for young people interested in starting a new collection or expanding their current collection.  The book includes tips on how to start, grow, organize, maintain, and display a collection.
Kay, Kiesa
Uniquely Gifted:  Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student
Some day, teachers, parents and administers will realize that the uniqueness of twice-exceptional students can be the basis for more learning that should be the foundation of a high quality and personalized approach to educating all learners.  This book thoughtfully and sensitively describes this uniqueness and charts a course for dealing with it and thus brings us closer to that day.
Kerr, Barbara A.
Smart Boys
 
Why do so many smart boys have problems with depression and anger in adolescence or later in their adult years? Why do so many of our brightest boys and young men underachieve in school and fail to reach their full potential in the world of work? Why do so many of them struggle to succeed in their personal relationships? This book includes suggestions for helping smart boys stay motivated, thought-provoking insights for gifted men, examinations of current research and books, and personal interviews with men who have experienced mid-life crises or failures.
Kerr, Barbara A.
Smart Girls
 
Why do gifted and talented girls so often fail to realize their potential as they reach adolescence and adulthood? This outstanding book summarizes research on gifted girls, presents biographies of eminent women and examines the current educational and family milieu. From this, Dr. Kerr gives practical advice to parents, teachers and policy-makers about ways to help gifted girls reach their potential. Bright women who read this book will see themselves and their issues and will find it very helpful. This is the third edition of Dr. Kerr's powerful book.
Mandel and Marcus
“Could Do Better”  Why Children Underachieve and What to do About It
Two leading psychologist give you individualized, practical solutions tailored for the six types of underachievers:  Coasters, Anxious Underachievers, Identity-Searchers, Wheeler-Dealers, Sad Underachievers, and Defiant Underachievers.  An eminently valuable resource for anyone confronted with the challenge of getting the best out of children and adolescents.
Neihart, Maureen
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children
What does the research (slim as it is) tell us?  Essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and to position them to make the contributions of which they are capable
Olenchak, Rick
They Say My Kid’s Gifted:  Now What?
A quick, easy-to-use guide for parents of gifted kids.  From identification process, to choosing a teacher, to gifted programs and curriculum...
 
Rimm, Sylvia
Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It
Dr. Rimm offers desperately needed help for parents of underachieving children.  Drawing on both clinical research and years of experience counseling families, she has developed a model to help parents and teachers work together to get students back on track.
Seligman, Martin
The Optimistic Child
Dr. Seligman and his able collaborators have done a remarkably fine job of applying people’s ability to dispute their catastrophic thinking to the extremely important area of child-rearing.  Their book provides parents and teachers with invaluable material on how to rear emotionally healthy youngsters.
Smutny, Joan
Stand Up for Your Gifted Child:  How to Make the Most of Kids’ Strengths at School and at Home
If you think your gifted child isn't getting the education he or she needs, this book is for you. It helps you recognize your child's gifts, understand his or her problems at school, find out your district's policy on gifted education, explore various options, communicate effectively with the school and district, and provide enrichment at home
Strip, Carol
Helping Gifted Children Soar:  A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers
 
This user-friendly guidebook educates parents and teachers about important gifted issues such as working with schools, evaluating classroom programs, forming parent support groups, choosing appropriate curriculum, meeting social and emotional needs, surviving the ups and downs, and much more! The information and useful advice provided make this book an ideal resource regarding early childhood and elementary education both for those just starting out in the gifted field as well as those who are already seasoned veterans.
Strip, Carol & Hirsch, Gretchen
Ayudando a Los Niños Dotados a Volar:
Una Guía Práctica Para Padres y Maestros
 
Esta guía sencilla educa a padres y maestros acerca de importantes cuestiones con respecto al niño dotado, como trabajar con las escuelas, evaluar programas de clases, formar grupos de apoyo para padres, escoger programas apropiados de estudio, satisfacer necesidades emocionales y sociales, sobrevivir los altibajos, ¡y mucho más! La información y los consejos útiles provistos aquí, hacen de este libro un recurso ideal tanto como para los que están empezando la profesión en la educación del dotado así como para los veteranos experimentados.
 
Takacs, Carol Addison
Enjoy Your Gifted Child
Includes topics such as role models and social skills.
Webb, James A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children  (390 pages)
This is a wonderfully insightful, fascinating, and comprehensive guidebook for the parents of gifted children. It is a "must read" for all adults who are confronted with the day-to day challenges inherent in bringing up a gifted child.
Webb, James
Do Gifted Children Need Special Help?  (video:  45 minutes)
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 vision.  In fact, gifted children often get criticized for the very characteristics that make them who they are.  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.
Webb, James
Guiding the Gifted Child:  A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers
 
Gifted children have special social and emotional needs. Their characteristics, combined with current educational practices, often put them at risk for problems. This award-winning book contains chapters on motivation, discipline, peer relationships, sibling relationships, stress management, depression and many other issues that parents and teachers encounter daily with these children. It has been called "The Dr. Spock book" for parents of gifted children, and over 100,000 copies have been sold.
Webb, James
Is My Child Gifted? (video: 45 minutes)
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 the traits (thinking and learning styles of gifted children) can actually result in underachievement, power struggles, and failure to be recognized as bright.  He also addresses the challenges of trying to educate gifted children in today’s public schools.
Webb, James
Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults
A very good book to help sort through what characteristics are about giftedness and what may stem from other issues. It tackles all the different and so frequently misunderstood issues of giftedness in a thorough way. It is also an easy read and presented in a way that a lay person can really understand.
 Walker, Sally Yahnke
The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids
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Sally Yahnke Walker, Ph.D., is a consultant, educator, and advocate for gifted children and the Executive Director for the Illinois Association for Gifted Children. She has piloted programs to create a broad-based level of support for talented students in public school districts.  This is the Survival Guide for parents.