Even gifted students often see themselves as good in mathematics or English but not both. This participatory session presents a five-week unit integrating mathematics and literature, using the novel Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers. Literary themes of conflict, the hero's journey, poetry, and metaphor combine with mathematical ideas about transformations in the coordinate plane, slope, irrational numbers, and propositional logic. Inter-disciplinary assignments that build on student strengths are shared. Middle grade teachers and coordinators for gifted and talented programs gain practical strategies and tools for teaching literature and mathematics together while enriching both subjects.