Gifted Volume 1: Amanda, Jenna, Emily by Marilyn KayeAbout the Series Meadowbrook Middle School is an ordinary school with ordinary students-except for the Nine. These students look like the others, but they're not. You could call it a skill, a talent or a disadvantage, but each of these students is unique - they're gifted. Out of Sight, Out of MindQueen of Mean Amanda Beeson, 13, gets the shock of her life when she wakes up one morning to find herself in the body of one of her victims, Tracey Devon. It turns out that Tracey, ignored at home and school, has the ability to become invisible. When Amanda finds herself in a special class that Tracey usually attends, it becomes clear that at Meadowbrook Middle School the definition of "gifted" has a whole other meaning. Can Amanda rescue her one-time target from obscurity and get her life back even if it means revealing her own startling gift to Meadowbrook's very secret clique? Better Late Than NeverGoth girl Jenna Kelley has the ultimate tool to stage a teenage rebellion: she can read people's minds. When her alcoholic mother is hospitalized, a stranger shows up who says he's her long-lost dad and promises a better future. Too good to be true? Her gifted classmates think so, but Jenna is so determined to have a real parent around and a somewhat normal life that she may no longer be listening. Here Today Gone TomorrowShy, dreamy Emily Sanders is able to foresee future events with the gift of premonitions, but they aren't always quite right. With frustration, Emily cannot yet manage to control her visions or make sense of them, and the other students usually don't take her seriously. As Emily works on controlling her gift and her premonitions become clearer, her classmates find themselves in a situation where they are forced to listen to her, but will it be too late?

 

This is volume 1 in Gifted .

This book was published 2012 by Pan Macmillan .

Marilyn Kaye is an associate professor in the Division of Library and Information Science at St John's University, New York. She is the author of many books for young people.