Fresh As The Sunrise: Gifted Traits Project

This is a collection of realistic fiction stories written by fourth-grade GEM (Gifted Education Midland) students. One of their goals for this project was to experience living and writing like published authors. The unique stories created by the students in Mrs. Gomez's Literature class are stories they wish had been available for them and other gifted kids to read. These young authors created believable characters with gifted traits because that is what they have researched and explored this school year. The main character in each story deals with a trait that GEM students/authors discovered gifted kids often share. There are four volumes in the series. Each volume contains stories from two GEM classes of fourth-graders. All of the stories represent different traits studied. Many genres are represented within each volume.