Gifted Touch (Fingerprints) [Import] [Paperback]

Melinda Metz (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Collins (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007132743
• ISBN-13: 978-0007132744
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,563,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melinda Metz grew up in San Jose, California. People sometimes ask if she knows the way there. She kinda does, but she has an off-kilter sense of direction, so to be confident of arriving, it's better to consult some kind of navigational device.

Her mother tried to teach her to read in kindergarten, but Melinda had no interest. She also had no interest in learning to write her name. (FYI, when Melinda was in kindergarten it was all about finger-painting, play time, and naps.) Eventually, she mastered both and even majored in English at San Jose State University.

After college, Melinda moved to Manhattan to seek her fortune, which involved learning to identify fruits and vegetables while working at a grocery store,
making $2.73 working backstage for an off-off Broadway play (her part of the box-office profits), and editing books.

Melinda and the lovely and talented Laura J. Burns pretty much became unofficial writing partners when they were editors at the same company. They teamed up to brainstorm story ideas, and at some point their brains fused in some key places. Later they worked on the Roswell High book series, Laura developing and editing the series, Melinda writing.

That series led to Melinda and Laura, now an official writing team, writing two TV pilots, moving to L.A. to work on the Roswell TV show, and briefly living in Toronto while on the writing staff of 1-800-Missing. They both continue to write books, together and separately.

Melinda has never regretted learning to read and write her name.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be an awesome read., December 13, 2000

By 

Rachel Hanson (Salt Lake City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gifted Touch (Fingerprints, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

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

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new orginal series!, June 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Gifted Touch (Fingerprints, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fingerprint Reader, May 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Gifted Touch (Fingerprints, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.