Jacquelyn Johnson

Gifted Jacquelyn Johnson

What is it like to be a girl who is mixed-race and gifted?

Set against the background of the holiday season, this is a story of what it truly means to understand your own unique gift and how you can share it.

When music prodigy Sam Hae Park, age 11, finds herself unexpectedly stranded at her best friend's house by a winter storm, she gets the special gift she's always been denied - a real family Christmas.

This gift comes with promises made and kept, secrets hidden and revealed and special gifts shared. For Sam, her best friend Morley and the Star family, it will be a holiday that is both eye-opening and life-changing.

Share it with them in Gifted, the third book in the continuing series of realistic stories about Morley Star, her family and friends. They live in Seabright, a small seaside town where nothing - and everything - happens for real girls with big dreams!

A heartwarming coming-of-age novel about being a girl caught between two cultures finding her own gifts and the courage to share them that will enchant grade 5 and middle school readers ages 10 to 13.