Thomas Luffman, 11, holds an origami creation he made out of 12 pieces of paper.At an age when many readers are raptly following the adventures of J.K. Rowling’s cast of wizards and witches, Thomas Luffman devoured the papers of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
The 11-year-old North Georgian is also a fan of children’s books such as Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. His weekly intake of one or two books generally includes works written at a high school and college level.
Thomas has been ahead of the academic curve since he started sounding out words when he was 21 months old. His mother, Amei Luffman, said he entered kindergarten reading on a second-grade level.
“They were wanting him to read ‘Dick and Jane,’ and he was reading chapter books,” Luffman said.
Given his advanced level, the kindergarten curriculum wasn’t very stimulating, Thomas said.