Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying to buy drugs.

Told entirely with images, this is the story of Glory, a piano prodigy. Brilliant and lonely, Glory falls in love with Frank, who moves in next door, and is soon unable to play anything but the song "Chopsticks."

"Being a new student at the McKegway School for Clever and Gifted Children is crummy enough, but when Toby Wilcox is stuck in the fourth grade homeroom of Mrs. Ravenbach, a vainglorious tyrant who worships "the order and the discipline," he faces a much bigger challenge - fight back or be ground to goo in the gears of academic efficiency." -- Book jacket.

When eighth-grader Leon decides what to do for his project in the gifted program, it involves coffee houses, pirates, and filmmaking.

Luego que Charles Wallace le dice a su hermana Meg que ha visto dragones en el huerto de su casa, los hermanos Murry reciben la sorprendente visita de Blajeny, un sabio Profesor proveniente del espacio, y de Proginoskes, un "querubines" con cientos de ojos y alas que se torna invisible a voluntad. Tanto Meg como su amigo Calvin son llevados a una galaxia remota donde veran que el Universo se esta "agrietando", y recibiran la noticia de que la vida...