Books for gifted children from Royal Fireworks Press, publishers for the gifted education curriculum.

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The Man Who Could Be Santa

Novel

"...will inspire imagination and wonder for the spirit of Christmas.”

"...the best book I ever read!"

Based on a true family adventure, is the story of three children who suspect that their neighbor might be Santa Claus. The children, vacationing in Vermont with their grandparents, form a spy club to find out if the man who lives down the street with the long white beard, a belly that shakes like jelly and a bunch of reindeer in his front yard is the same person who slides down their chimneys every Christmas. The story is told from the point of view of six-and-three-quarter year old Abby who insists that she will believe in Santa Claus even when she is in “the hundredth grade.”   This inter-generational tale, celebrating old-fashioned family values with up-to-date, real, characters, encourages people to put the heart back in the holidays.

The author consulted with more than a hundred students Read more: The Man Who Could Be Santa

Tending Ben's Garden

Novel

This is the story of a big sister's fierce love for her younger brother. Set in Michigan during the Great Depression, Kate and Ben's family do not think that they can do the best for little Ben, an uncommon child, and they allow him to go to a foster home.

Kate will not accept the situation, and she gets their brothers to help her tend his garden through all the seasons of his absence. The garden was important to Ben so the garden was important to them. Read more: Tending Ben's Garden

Dragon Girl

Novel

An interactive, 'forks of life' adventure.

In a moment that she would live to regret, Jane wishes her younger sister Belle would disappear “back where you came from.” Belle had been adopted from China, and very soon after the wish was expressed, Belle disappears.

Jane knows that she has to find her, but she has no idea how hard the quest will be. At each turn, she has to make choices, and those put her closer to Belle or can end her search forever.

You can help Jane make the choices that will bring success!

Work Smart

The authors write: "Was there ever a time in your life everything seemed impossible; difficult choices to be made; challenges never faced before; and little hope of success? Every one of us has faced such a time--that's what living is all about.

"Seeing the forsythia bloom one December became the inspiration for one life and for this book. Something extraordinary had happened that allowed those flowers to bloom--so if your life is at a crossroads of opportunity or challenge, this book may help you "Work Smart" and make the forsythia bloom. Read more: Work Smart

A Shadow in the Dark

Novel

When Kirsten moves out to the country, she's happy to learn from a neighbor boy that another girl lives in a nearby farmhouse. Kirsten sets out to meet the girl but is told by an old woman at the house that she lives there alone. Kirsten befriends another neighbor's granddaughter, and soon the two overhear the old woman scolding someone in her house. They see a shadowy figure at the front windows of her house. And dresses they discover hanging on her clothesline are too small to be the old woman's. Is someone being held captive? Who is the girl the neighbor boy saw? And why doesn’t she come out?

Margo Dill reviewed A Shadow in the Dark positively in her blog, "Read These Books and Use Them." She makes suggestions for teachers and homeschoolers how they can use fiction books with children, and she did a great job with A Shadow in the Dark.

Read more about the Kirsten Hart series.

Living It Up To Live It Down

Novel

Surviving Erebus: An Antarctic Adventure

Novel

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From A to Zulinski

Novel

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This is the third volume in the chronicles of the irrepressible Jake's schooling. We first met him in Jake's the Name, Sixth Grade's the Game and followed by his exploits in Those Sevy Blues.

Jake is deaf and has relied on an interpreter to sign the spoken words in his classrooms. For most of his teachers and classmates he was the first mainstreamed deaf student they had encountered.

By the time he has reached high school Jake has a deaf classmate and long acquaintance with his peers. They know what mischief he can generate. Read more: From A to Zulinski

Through Goya's Eyes

Novel

From the perspective of Gaspar Jovellanos, diarist and friend of the painter Francisco De Goya, we experience the Spanish Enlightenment of the late 18th century.

Goya’s art vividly testifies to the pain and suffering of brutal repression, as well as to the vitality and hopefulness that were all part of the Spanish experience at this time.

In the form of a biography of Gaspar Jovellanos, the author takes us into a world that is otherwise relatively unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world. Read more: Through Goya's Eyes

Uses and Abuses of Intelligence

Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven’s Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics. Edited by Jean and John Raven, this new book is a compilation of 26 papers that raise fundamental issues in psychometrics. In particular, it looks at the use of arbitrary metrics and arbitrary measures in assessment of human abilities.

Some of the papers focus on the assessment of “meaning-making ability” across cultures and through time, and explore how that ability is a valid construct which can be measured scientifically. From this perspective, it is possible to identify fundamental problems Read more: Uses and Abuses of Intelligence

Eeny Meeny Miney Mo: Time to Lynch a Negro

Though rarely talked about, just a few short years ago and still in the memories of the older generation, lynchings happened, black life was cheap and expendable and could be taken summarily without consequence.

Through the fictional lives of everyday people, perpetrators, victims and bystanders, this volume of poetry, prose and stories helps define the fullness of lynching.

The stories refrain from dwelling too heavily on the grotesque and inhumane acts of torture and death, but do not shy away from the personal passions Read more: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo: Time to Lynch a Negro

Redheaded Angel

Novel

This is the story of Columbia Victoria Stuart Boyden who found herself a virtual orphan after her father went to fight in the Civil War and her mother died. She made the long and difficult trip to her uncle's Virginia plantation where she was taken in and treated as a member of the family.

Her uncle was the illustrious General Jeb Stuart, and she became part of an exciting world of war, privilege, and adventure. Read more: Redheaded Angel