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Hi, Ethan,

Thanks for posting. Great question! Sorry I don’t have any earth-shattering answers for you. The idea for the book came when I visited a highly gifted class. I got the impression that they were very bright, but that they were almost wistful about the ordinary things that were going on in the regular school. From that came the idea of landing a kid, an ordinary one, a virtual fish out of water, among them. And from that I went on to decide that every single person is gifted in some way, and no one is ordinary. Donovan was gifted in ways they couldn’t even dream about. He was no genius, but he had street smarts. And all those really genius-level kids grew to envy him!

OK? Will that add to your report even though it’s not historical? And are you interested in reading the sequel, which is called SUPERGIFTED? Laughs guaranteed!

                                   Best regards,                                                                    —–Gordon Korman—–