Reading Kristine Barnett's amazing memoir, "The Spark," you can understand why those school administrators were leery of a little old book club. Barnett tells the story of her son, Jake, who at ...

Jake and Kristine Barnett. Her memoir of raising the autistic, astrophysics genius is titled "The Spark." Credit: Drew Endicott. By KRISTINE BARNETTApril 16, 2013. Share.

Kristine Barnett, with her son Jacob, 15, who has an IQ higher than Einstein’s. ... Kristine Barnett has now written a book: The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius.

THE SPARK: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius, by Kristine Barnett. Random House, 250 pp., $25.. The word "autism" does not appear on the jacket of "The Spark."This is remarkable in itself ...

Kristine Barnett was a mom of three boys living in Indiana when she and her then-husband Michael adopted Grace in 2010. She's ...

The Spark: Jacob & Kristine Barnett Meet a boy ready to step into the shoes of Einstein and Newton -- even though he was once considered unlikely to ever lace his own boots.

In the book “The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius,” Kristine Barnett wrote about raising her eldest son, who she says in the book as diagnosed with autism at 2 and also is a math ...

She published a memoir in 2013 about how she raised a genius son, called The Spark: ... Jacob Barnett “Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, ...

If you're a parent and you haven't yet heard of The Spark, you probably will do soon. The book, out this May, is the unbelievable true story of Kristine Barnett, a working class American mother ...

Kristine Barnett confronted the girl after catching her pour household cleaner into her coffee, ... His mother also wrote "The Spark," a book about raising a child genius.