Judy Galbraith - The Gifted Teen Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook

Reading this guide is like having an expert on giftedness, an excellent teacher or mentor, and a best friend to talk withall at the same time. The combination of great information and great writing makes it a cant put it down book! I recommend it highly for all gifted teens.

Susan Daniels, Ph.D., professor of educational psychology and counseling at California State University in San Bernardino, and coauthor of Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults

A truly excellent, thorough, and up-to-date book! It will help gifted teens understand themselves in ways that will change their lives.

James T. Webb, Ph.D., psychologist and founder of Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

This updated fourth version is better than ever, keeping the best themes from the older versions but in a readable new format, and including lots of new stuff, too.

Hoagies Gifted Education Page

Mutual respect between authors and readers is apparent on each page of this bookit is the ultimate problem-solving guide for gifted teens.

Colleen M. Harsin, director, The Davidson Academy of Nevada

Judy and Jim packed this book full of actionable steps along with real-life stories, facts, and examples from many gifted teens. These stories will help build self-esteem, confidence, and important qualities for any teen to succeed further in life.

Lane Sutton, age 14, entrepreneur, social media coach, and founder/writer of kidcriticusa.com

Galbraith and Delisle skip the platitudes, deconstruct common misconceptions, and get to the heart (and brain) of real issues for gifted teens.

Corin Barsily Goodwin, executive director, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, and author of Making the Choice: When Typical School Doesnt Work for Your Typical Child

This comprehensive, insightful, fascinating book is the classic guide for gifted teens, and the new, updated topics are essential in todays complex society.

Bertie Kingore, Ph.D., educational consultant and author of Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment, PreK3: Guiding Potential in Young Learners

This new edition is the best yet! It has a fabulous format that is very appealing to teens. I consider it a must have book.

Margaret Gosfield, acquisitions editor, Gifted Education Communicator

An unprecedented wealth of information about gifted studentspractical, relevant, and timelyrelatable and genuine.

The Davidson Institute

What was good about the previous edition is even better in the new, fourth edition.

Lisa Rivero, Everyday Intensity blog and author of A Parents Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents

This frank appraisal of the challenges and rewards of being smarter than your average bear continues to provide effective self-confidence-building advice on a broad array of issuesdiscussions of intensity, of being 2E, and other specialized topics add a distinctive slant.

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This book provides gentle, straightforward, and realistic advice to teens who find that their giftedness is not always simple. The tone indicates quite clearly that the authors have a deep understanding of gifted minds and gifted children. Gifted young people everywhere should have access to this book, and the adults who work with them will gain a better understanding of them from it.

School Library Journal

Offers specific, often pithy advice. This updated editionfeels fresh and timely. An intelligent, entertaining look at the unique and not-so-unique issues that gifted teens face.

Kirkus Reviews

Copyright 2011, 1996, 1987, 1983 by Judy Galbraith, M.A., and Jim Delisle, Ph.D.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Galbraith, Judy.

The gifted teen survival guide : smart, sharp, and ready for (almost) anything / Judy Galbraith & Jim Delisle.Rev. & updated 4th ed.

p. cm.

Previously published under title: The gifted kids survival guide: a teen handbook.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-57542-381-4

1. Gifted teenagersJuvenile literature. [1. Gifted children.] I. Delisle, James R., 1953- II. Title.

BF724.3.G53G35 2011

155.50879dc23

2011020278

eBook ISBN: 978-1-57542-683-9

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