Members suggestions for books worth reading, related to Gifted & Talented Education issues.  If you have a book you'd like to share, please email mkirgis@gmail.com with the information.

The following books are available in the Port Washington Public Library:

Being Smart about Gifted Children by Mathews (P.I.C. 371.9572 M)

Helping Gifted Children Soar by Carol Strip Whitney (P.I.C. 371.9572 S)

Living with Intensity (P.I.C. 371.9572 L)

Parenting Gifted Kids by James Delisle (P.I.C. 371.9572 D)

A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by James T. Webb (P.I.C. 371.9572 W)

Smart Boys:  Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning by Barbara Kerr (155.332 K)

 
Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids by Tracy Cross (P.I.C. 371.9572 C)

 
Some of My Best Friends Are Books by Judith Halsted (Prof Coll 025.55 H)

Other recommended books:

Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting our Brightest Young Minds by Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam

excerpts:

What Students Can Do: http://www.geniusdenied.com/articles.aspx?articleId=11&NavID=1_13

What Parents Can Do: http://www.geniusdenied.com/articles.aspx?articleid=13&NavID=2_3

What Educators Can Do: http://www.geniusdenied.com/articles.aspx?articleid=14&NavID=3_3 

Setting Limits: How to Raise Responsible, Independent Children by Providing Clear Boundaries by Robert J. MacKenzie

Discipline Without Tears by Rudolf Dreikurs, Pearl Cassell

Parenting Without Fear by Paul J. Donahue

Smart Love by Martha Heineman Pieper and William Pieper