Highly recommended for extremely gifted children 6 & up

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	• The Girl With the Silver Eyes (Apple Paperbacks) Willo Davis Roberts Scholastic, 1991 - 198 pages average customer review:based on 71 reviews view larger image
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The turning point

This book is the book I credit with starting my love for reading. In 5th grade Virgina Bearason recomended this book to my mom for me. I have been reading ever since. Thank God for good teachers and good books.

An all-time favorite of mine

I read this book as a child - at what age, I'm not sure. What I do know is that I never forgot this story. I really identified with the main character, and that has stayed with me for many years. I finally had to get a copy for my shelf. It is still just as good a story as I remembered. I hope they reprint this book.

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the girl with the silver eyes

The Girl with the Silver Eyes
By: Willo Davis Roberts

The Girl with the Silver Eyes is about a girl named Katie. She has no friends because of her unusual eyes. She not only has silver eyes, she can also make things float with her mind. But then, she gets accused for doing something she would never even think about doing in her life!
I think this book gets 3 stars out of 5 in rating, because of all the suspense and drama that happens throughout the book. An example of suspense and drama in the book is when she was wondering if they would lock her up for her abilities. "If only I had someone to talk to, someone like my father. I don't think he'd let them lock me up, but I don't know where he is..."

By: Malina Alexander

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The Girl with the Silver Eyes

The Girl with the Silver Eyes
BY:WILLO DAVIS ROBERTS

Katie has silver eyes. Are they magic or just special? Well, there magic. How, she can move objects without touching the object. And at night she lies in bed and turns the light off while still in bed. Katie is one odd kid. But she can do something else. Read the book to find out.

I enjoy this book very much. Also if you like mysterius books. Read this book.

Highly recommended for extremely gifted children 6 & up

This book was written in 1980, but I read it for the first time eleven years later. Honestly, I picked it up because of the cover. *g* I was on a paranormal kick after having read Anne McCaffery's To Ride a Pegasus and Pegasus in Flight (both good books, but the second is great) and though it looked like typcial Apple Paperback fare, I figured it was worth giving a shot.

First, what the book isn't. It isn't brilliantly written. It isn't fabulously plotted. It relies on coincidences that definitely stretch credulity. The end was contrived.

But what it is is wonderful in its own way. It's the story of a 9-year-old girl who is diffeferent in two ways: first, she is incredibly intelligent, and second, she has silver eyes and paranormal powers. The story centers on her paranormal powers, but in many ways, it's as much about the way her intelligence makes people see her as about anything else. By using the paranormal powers as a framework, the author can speak quite bluntly about extreme giftedness in children in a way that connects viscerally with them. This is hardly an accident, as Katie's intelligence is mentioned in conjunction with her other "strangeness" almost every time.

The author frankly states that many people hate people who might seem "better" than them simply for existing and that they scare people. She portrays Katie's differentness not as something that is wrong with her-however others might treat her-but as something of value. She confirms the experience of many very gifted children by creating a parallel in Katie's life, and she also gives those children the holy grail of having others like them through Katie's successful quest to find three others who are the same as she is-she offers up the hope of a group identity to individuals who might never have experienced any sort fo group. She also gives Katie the gift of an adult around whom she can be herself without fearing judgement, dislike, fear, or censure. And the end offers the most wonderful vision of all while still admitting the limitations of existence in such a statictically unlikely minority. The new group of children learn that there's an entire school for kids like them, but the downside is that it's far away and, to some extent, the people who run it share some degree of clinical interest (versus PERSONAL interest) in the children. But on the other hand, their differences are no long muttered about and whispered about by their parents-they're openly acknowledged, and as they are acknowledged, they are ACCEPTED and no longer treated as a fault. A compromise is struck in which the children can go to school like normal and live with their parents like normal for a while and meet on Saturdays for guided advanced lessons and for practice with their paranormal powers, but there is the possibility-even likelihood-that the children will choose to go to the special school at some point in the future.

This book is a relevation and a validation for the isolated extremely gifted child, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The paranormal twist might give it a slight Indigo Child odor, but that would be invisible to a kid, and there's plenty to redeem it, anyhow.

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