question: Lawrence D. Cohen's Carrie:The Musical is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel, which centers around a socially awkward teenage girl with what newly discovered powers?
answer: telekinetic powers
context: Title: Lawrence D. Cohen
  Passage: Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on Brian De Palma's "Carrie" (1976), an adaptation of Stephen King's novel.  Following this he scripted a simplified film adaptation of Peter Straub's novel "Ghost Story" in 1981.  His output has been infrequent, but he has helped in adapting two other King novels to television, "It" in 1990 and "The Tommyknockers" in 1993.  In 2006 he wrote a segment for the TV series "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King".
  Title: Teenage Health Freak
  Passage: Teenage Health Freak is a British teen comedy-drama, about the life and travails of a socially awkward teenager as he goes through life.  It was based on the book "Diary of a Teenage Health Freak", by Dr. Ann McPherson and Dr. Aidan Macfarlane.  The episodes were directed by Peter Cattaneo.
  Title: Through the Hidden Door
  Passage: Through the Hidden Door is a young adult novel by Rosemary Wells.  This book was a runner-up for a 1988 Edgar Allan Poe Award.  The book details the story of Barney Penniman, an awkward eighth-grader with a lisp who is attending a boarding school.  Barney deals with bullies and a headmaster who dislikes him, but finds friendship with a younger, also socially awkward student named Snowy Cobb.  The two boys unearth an amazing archeological find and secretly work to dig it up.
  Title: Carrie (musical)
  Passage: Carrie: The Musical is a musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore.  Adapted from Stephen King's novel "Carrie", it focuses on an awkward teenage girl with telekinetic powers whose lonely life is dominated by an oppressive religious fanatic mother.  When she is humiliated by her classmates at the high school prom, she wreaks havoc on everyone and everything in her path.
  Title: The Delicate Art of the Rifle
  Passage: The Delicate Art of the Rifle is a 1996 independent film directed by Dante W. Harper, with a screenplay by Stephen Grant, based on his short story by the same name.  It is a surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay.  Walt Whitman, the shooter, is loosely based on Charles Whitman, but the film is not in any way a factual account of the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas.
  Title: Kara Taitz
  Passage: Kara Eve Taitz (born May 11, 1981) is an American actress, who starred as Lily Miran, a socially awkward and sex-crazed girl who has feelings for the main character on the now cancelled sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger".  Her on-screen debut was as Millicent, a recurring character on "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody".  Millicent was a quirky candy counter girl who often fainted out of panic.  Other appearances include episodes of "Samantha Who? ", "Wizards of Waverly Place" and the USA television-movie "Operating Instructions" as Christine Lahti's meek, lovestruck assistant
  Title: Carrie (2013 film)
  Passage: Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name.  The film was produced by Kevin Misher, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen & Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.  The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Screen Gems on October 18, 2013.  The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the titular Carrie White, Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother Margaret White, Judy Greer as Ms. Desjardin, Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen, Gabriella Wilde as Sue Snell, Ansel Elgort as Tommy Ross, and Alex Russell as Billy Nolan.
  Title: Carrie (novel)
  Passage: Carrie is a novel by American author Stephen King.  It was his first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 copies.  Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrie White, a misfit and bullied high school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her, while in the process causing one of the worst local disasters in American history.  King has commented that he finds the work to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify."  It is one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools.  Much of the book uses newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books to tell how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine while exacting revenge on her sadistic classmates and her own mother Margaret.
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  Passage: Geek Girl is the debut novel of Holly Smale.  It tells the story of Harriet Manners, a socially awkward 15 year old English girl with a limited circle of friends and who is the target of the school bully.  Plucked from obscurity to be the face of a high profile fashion advertising campaign, Manners' change of circumstance results in various conflicts which she must resolve and which in turn lead to revelations about both herself and the world in general.
  Title: List of My Little Monster episodes
  Passage: "My Little Monster" is a 2012 romantic comedy Japanese anime based on the manga written and illustrated by Robico.  The story follows the relationship between Haru Yoshida, a cheerful and seemingly delinquent boy and Shizuku Mizutani, a socially awkward girl who devotes herself to obtaining academic success.
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