I distinctly remember having a thread like this before, but I can't find it.

I would love to read some more children fantasy books or books about particularly special children. Of course I have read Harry Potter and loved them all. I was also very impressed with Spinelli's Stargirl.

I am not very familiar with this genre and whenever I go to a bookstore I never quite know what I am looking for.

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"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation," she told the crowd.

have you ever read anything by francesca lia block? her weetzie bat books are a very happy place to go - and i'd say witch baby (a character in the series and the main subject of books two and four) is pretty extra-special - her preferred mode of travel is cowboy boot roller skates and she plays drums in a band and eats mud when she's sad.

Her name has come up before. I'll look her up.

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"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation," she told the crowd.

the wizard of earthsea by ursula le guin is about a precocious boy wizard

diana wynne jones stuff is often about that kind of thing too

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle. I seriously cannot recommend this enough. And three fully precocious children star in it, travelling through "a wrinkle in time". I honestly believe is this book doesn't steal your heart it's because you didn't have one to begin with.

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Encyclopedia Brown is very precocious, but also a dickhead.

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you should have a look at 'i coriander' by sally gardner. she's not terribly precocious but its one of the best childrens books ive ever read. its historical fiction/fairytale set in cromwells london.