Fiction Books that Gifted Children Enjoy Harold's Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson (a early reader series) What's the Big Idea, Ben Frankiln? by Jean Fritz Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis The Boy Who Could Fly by Sally Gardner A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'Engle Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card