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Summer 2003 Book Reviews

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live with, and Stick Up for Your Gifted Child, by Sally Yahnke Walker, edited by Caryn Pernu. Free Spirit, 2002. Paperback, 167 pp., ISBN 1-57542-111-9. $14.95 This revised...

Book Reviews Volume 3 / Issue 4 / Summer 2003 Stephens, Kristen R.

A Forgotten Voice: A Biography of Leta Stetter Hollingworth, by Ann G. Klein. Great Potential, 2002. Trade paper, 246 pp., ISBN 0-910707-53-7. $22.00 A Forgotten Voice details the life and accomplishments of Leta Hollingworth, one of the founders of gifted...

Book Reviews Volume 3 / Issue 3 / Spring 2003 Stephens, Kristen R.

Re-forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child, by Karen B. Rogers. Great Potential, 2002. Paperback, 512 pp., ISBN 0-910707-46-4. $28.00 An informative and valuable read for parents of gifted children, Rogers provides parents a primer in gifted...

Book Reviews Collins-Perry, Bobbie Volume 2 / Issue 4 / Summer 2002 Stephens, Kristen R.

Stand Up for Your Gifted Child: How to Make the Most of Kids’ Strengths at School and at Home, by Joan Franklin Smutny. Free Spirit, 2001. Paperback, 190 pp., ISBN 1-57542-088-0. $14.95 Smutny’s statement that “advocacy doesn’t require educational...

Book Reviews Collins-Perry, Bobbie Volume 2 / Issue 1 / Fall 2001

Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student, edited by Kiesa Kay. Avocus, 2000. Paperback, 356 pp., ISBN 1-890765-04-X. $34.95 In this collection of articles, combinations of giftedness and learning disabilities (such as dysgraphia, autism, and attention...

Book Reviews Volume 1 / Issue 3 / Spring 2001 Nathanson, Lori