Nine-year-old publishes first book

9-year-old whiz kid who memorizes World Almanacs and whose intellect doesn’t register on standard IQ tests is now a published author.

Thomas Little’s first book is “The Adventures of the Symbols,” a self-published novel that has keyboard characters such as $ and % in a mysterious plot. The book was ranked No. 557,363 in sales Tuesday on Amazon.com.

Little, who is know by his pen name Thomas D.L., already has a jump on his next three novels and the next book, “The Symbols versus the Numbers,” could soon be out.

His parents, David and Ann Little, knew their son was special but didn’t know what was normal learning and what was an unusual gift.