Fingerprints #1: Gifted Touch

by Melinda Metz

Sometimes, when I touch things, words fill my head. Words that feel like thoughts--thoughts that are inside of me...but not mine.I'm starting to wonder if there's a reason for all the voices that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064472655
• ISBN13: 9780064472654
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harper Teen
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

Melinda Metz does it again!!

I absolutely love this first book in the 'Fingerprints' series. Melinda has outdone herself again. Just like with the ROSWELL HIGH series, she has created such likeable and realistic characters...She takes you deep into their mind and helps you explore what they are all about...I really like the character of anthony...I relate so much to some of the things he thinks and does...The lead character rae,reminds me of myself way down deep inside...she has beauty and has spirit..If you loved ROSWELL HIGH, like I did, I would recommend that you read this book and love it even more!.I can't wait to get the rest of the series.

A new orginal series!

Rae can't help it but sometimes she hears thoughts in her head. Thoughts that aren't her own. She dosen't understand why and she sometimes thinks she crazy. After having a mental breakdown in the middle of the cafeteria at the end of her sophmore year she spent her summer in hospitals and is still going to group therapy. SHe's nervous of what people will think about her when she comes back to school. She wonders if they'll be afraid of her. In her group therapy meetings she meets Anthony who's tough bravado seems to cover up deep problems. But when something terrible happens to Rea she's forced to face her secret and use her strange powers. But will that be enough to save Anthony?I really enjoyed this book. The concept was orginal and the charecters were complex and different than others that you usually see in books. If you liked series like Fearless and the Sweep series this book is for you. I hope I get to read the second book in the Series. It's called Haunted.

Fingerprint Reader

Gifted Touch is about a girl named Rae Voight who starts hearing voices in her head. Her first impulse is that she's going crazy like her mother. Then Rae starts going to group therapy but all she wants to do is be a normal girl and go to school and parties. On her way to group therapy a bomb explodes in the girls bathroom that she is in and hears a voice in her head that sounds like she wants to kill Rae for something and wants to frame Anthony for it. Anthony is this boy in Rae's group therapy who is a slow reader and who helps Rae realize that she is gifted. Whenever she touches a fingerprint she can read your thoughts at the time you left the mark. Now Rae has to help prove that Anthony is innocent and find whoever wants her dead. This was a great book and I would recommend it to anyone.

Should be an awesome read.

The "Fingerprints" series is about a girl named Rae who can touch a fingerprint and know what the perons who left the print was thinking at the time they left it. At first she thinks she is going crazy. (Since her mother died in a mental institution, she has extra good reason to be worried.) Then she, with the help of a guy named Anthony, figures out that she has a psi power. But Rae still has something big to be afraid of.She touch a fingerprint that told her someone wants to kill her. She just doesn't know who. Or why.Melinda Metz also wrote the Roswell High series, which is my absolute favorite series of all time. She does a great job mixing sci-fi and romance, and I'm really looking forward to reading these books when they come out. The first two are coming out in April, and then one every month after that. So far there's six in the contract. --Rachel