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Dear  Gordon Korman, 

This is Layla Cohrs from Parker Colorado and I’m a 8th grader at Cimarron Middle School and I was supposed to do a independent reading project and I choose to do do the letter to the author and  I’ve read your book Ungifted and I must say it was a pretty good book. I like how it was from different perspectives of the people, even one of the principal\superintendent of the school and how he got it all mixed up with Donovan and completely forgot his name at the end of one of the chapters after Donovan visited him.  I like how Donovan helped the gifted kids even if he wasn’t gifted. My favorite character and why is probably Abigail Lee because she hates Donovan at first, knowing him from Elementary school and how he wasn’t gifted, always got into trouble. I like it though at the end when Abigail was the one who hacked into the computer and cheated on the test and I was pretty surprised. It was funny though when Noah erased all of the evidence against Abigail and pretended HE was the one who did it. I think that the theme is “Ungifted people can sometimes be just as smart as Gifted people,” Because being ungifted, Donovan turned out to be smart and helped with the robot. Or maybe another theme is “Everyone has a different skill. It just takes some time to find it,” Because having a knack for trouble, Donovan had another skill about finding unexpected solutions to problems. Some suggestions about a sequel to the book is maybe in the next one the Gifted kids have to go to the regular school for like a week or month and do what they do. Or the Gifted kids have to follow a Ungifted kid around for a day for an extra-credit assignment or the opposite with gifted and having a Ungifted following a Gifted kid around for a day.  Or maybe the Gifted school gets shut down? Or that Donovan has to move away and a new kid with a bigger knack for trouble, bigger than Donovan’s knack for trouble, comes along and is a bully and Donovan has to do something about it if he comes back for holidays or something? A question I have is why did you choose to write about Ungifted kids and Gifted kids and from different perspectives. Is it because you had a similar experience with Ungifted VS. Gifted kids, somehow? Or is it not related at all? How’d you get the idea? 

Thank you for your time,

Layla Cohrs, Parker Colorado