The presenter shares how gifted middle level students use bibliotherapy to influence understanding of their gifted characteristics. The study considers meaningful connections and insights by assessing the gifted middle level students’ understanding of their own characteristics before and after reading young adult literature with gifted characters and learning about gifted characteristics. Student discussions and a variety of projects conveying gifted students learning are presented. This session offers participants a framework for an effective and easy-to-implement differentiated project with handouts.