yeah pretty good

really good solid read. boy ends up getting accidently sent to an extra smart gifted school. very nice how the students bond together and stick togther dispite differences. not super funny but still really good.

Hilarious! This was a fun, laugh out loud read that I will definitely read to my sixth graders for years to come. Korman is a guru.

An excellent read. Korman deftly weaves a funny and amusing plot, complete with robots and a baby.

Donovan Curtis has never been called gifted. Trouble maker, calamity, rapskallion maybe, but no one would ever call him smart. But after a disaster of epic proportions, involving Atlas's globe and the gym doors in the middle of a basketball game, Donovan somehow ends up transfered to the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, a school for extremely smart students. Donovan sticks out like a sore thumb. He's failing all his classes, but everyone believes that he will show what he is truly good at soon. He is good at driving the Academy's robot for the robot competition, but is that enough to keep him at ASD, and away from the eyes of the Superintendant who is looking for the young man who caused the epic disaster? This is a typical Gordon Korman book. Solid storytelling, accompanied by good characers and ridiculous situations. There is an interesting exploration of the meaning of "gifted", but in the end this is a good outing for Korman, one that his audience of reluctant readers will enjoy.

Donavan is a middle school prankster who always seems to get himself into trouble. When his latest prank demolishes the school gym, he needs a quick place to hide out and avoid Dr. Schultz, the school superintendent. And by accident, he finds it--a school for the gifted. Although not gifted himself, he adds much to his new fellow student's lives. Always fun reading Gordon Korman.

I really enjoyed this book, it is funny, a sort of Comedy of Errors for tweens, it has some surprising plot twists, and it's well written in short exciting chapters that often link back to the first reference made to ancestry.com on the first page of the book. I hope to see the character of Donovan Curtis again, as I get the sense he was typecast as a "normal" kid, maybe there is more to him?

Gifted was kind of funny, but it made it seem as if the smart kids never see sunlight. It was a bit too short, in my opinion.

This is cute, occasionally funny, and well-written. But, the characters just don't ring true. The smart kids are too awkward, the normal kids are barely above juvenile delinquents, and it is ok to be different as long as you are different just.like. Donovan. Kids will like this. There's nothing wrong with that. But overall, this is not Korman's best.