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Penguin helps organize the annual talent show because he cannot identify his own gift, but when the show is over and the performers throw a party to show how much they appreciate Penguin's work, his aptitude becomes clear.

"Simple text and full-color photos celebrate different and varied abilities"--Provided by publisher.

Eighth-grader Kristy Armstrong decides to make her mark at clique-ruled Bel Air Middle School by following in her top talent agent-mother's footsteps and catapulting a new student into stardom, which jeopardizes her relationships with best friends Marisol and Dee.

Skye Hamilton is invited to attend the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school, where she finds that anyone who is deemed a loser is subjected to humiliation and torment by their classmates and fears that she will soon become the target of their ridicule.

Skye Hamilton, Charlie Deery, and Allie A. Abbott are enrolled in the exclusive Alpha Academy, where the best dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors face eliminations until there is only one left standing.

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the proteg? of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

Twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.

Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one.

"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist.

"Thirteen-year-old superhero sidekick-in-training Drew "The Sensationalist" Bean must overcome his not-so-superpowers and become the hero everyone needs when a supervillain, The Dealer, returns to Justicia"--Provided by publisher.

The first grade is distressed by an intelligence test which fails to measure true aptitude.

Illustrations and text express a desire for the sharp eyesight of a blackbird, the tail of a lemur, and other animal's strengths.

Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.

Chronicles the history of the Educational Testing Service and discusses how it was created, why researchers believed it would help create a new class of intelligent Americans, how the plan backfired, and how it affected American history.

Challenges common beliefs that human potential is largely determined by genetics and other biological factors, drawing on a variety of scientific disciplines to explain how to tap innate abilities that have been influenced by environmental factors.