Well, I had gifties in mind for this book, because of the dearth of reading material that is sufficiently advanced and yet age-appropriate for kids like my DS8. And it's about three gifted kids, one of whom is essentially him.
I picked up the MT books because I'd seen them mentioned here and thought they sounded something like my story -- which it turns out they are only in a minor, superficial way. I would say mine bears more of a resemblance to The Mysterious Benedict Society, although it's not really like that either, if that makes any sense. Mine is a large, save-the-world quest, but entirely different from MBS.
Being one big quest, it is put together as one reasonable-sized book (for a kids' or YA sort of book), but it would be possible to turn it into a series of short books. However, it wouldn't be like MT in that sense, because the short books would still be bits of the same plot. That would make it difficult, though, because it would be possible to pick them up in the wrong order. It would be a Harry Potter in that sense, where getting out of sequence could be a problem, or at least reading the last book before the others would not be good. Maybe not Harry Potter, but perhaps at least like Narnia. Those aren't bad to read out of sequence, except the last one.
Sorry, I'm working through this here while I pick your brains.
And no, it's not quite finished yet, just getting there, but thanks!
