Gifted

Beth Evangelista

Nov 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

About this ebook

Sometimes brains aren't everything.

George R. Clark is gifted. Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve. Most of his classmates avoid him-if he's lucky. Until the Bruise Brothers, the intellectually challenged members of the school football team, decide they want George to pass a test of their own design.

Only the fact that George's father is the school principal has saved him in the past. But his father isn't going on the eighth grade science field trip, and George has a feeling it's going to be open season on dorks. Suddenly thrown into a crash course on human nature, without his father to protect him, the most intellectually gifted kid in the eighth-grade might actually learn something before the end of the trip . . . if he survives it.

Ratings and reviews

My teacher made me read this book for summer reading, and I didnt think it was going to be interesting. After the first few chapters I got into it and I really liked it. The awkwardness reminded me of almost everyone I was friends with. Things became kind of depresing at the end and that was really breathtaking. This book is really relatable to people who are socially awkward of are troubled with hubris.

LOVED IT!!!GREAT BOOK!!!!.

About the author

Beth Evangelista lives and writes in the Philadelphia area. Her favorite things in the world are reading, writing, watching submarine movies, eating Hershey bars, and being with her husband and three sons. Gifted is her first novel.