From the back cover: Carl Prescott never did have many friends, and after a chance meeting with Headmaster Dorchester, he may lose the only two friends he has left. With no other options, Carl, Grace, and Burt transfer to the Thorndike Academic Institution, one of only two schools on Earth that cater to the unusual abilities of their students. They learn that the oddities that made them outcasts at home are amazing skills vital to saving the world. If they can survive.The second school is more interested in enslaving the world than saving it. Headmaster Greenleaf and Professor Thorndike VIII will do anything to keep the three friends from becoming what they must become. Carl, Grace, Burt, and their new friend, Aida race through this nonstop action adventure. Every day, they discover more about the talents they possess, but time is short. If Carl fails, the school and everyone there is doomed. Let us hope he learns quickly and well.From the author: Carl, Burt, and Grace were outcasts at home and school. Only Grace had other friends, but that was okay with Carl Prescott. She was the only friend he needed. Now both she and Burt are being sent far away to the Bertrand Aloysius Thorndike Academic Institution due to their unusual abilities, so Carl goes along.Soon they learn that those oddities are actually amazing talents. While exploring vacant wings of the Gratia Dei Dormitory, they find the truth of this ancient academy, and they are put on a very dangerous path that can save the world, if they can overcome impossible odds.Join the adventure, and follow the friends as they learn amazing truths that most refuse to see. Solving the riddle of The Sleeping One is only the beginning of this stor