The Institute

1st Scribner hardcover edition (US/CAN), 561 pages

English language

Published Sept. 1, 2019 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-9821-1056-7
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OCLC Number:
1120961626

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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If …

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Content warning Spoiling themes about the book, but not the actual plot.

Subjects

  • Missing children--Fiction
  • Psychic ability--Fiction
  • Child abuse--Fiction
  • Kidnapping--Fiction
  • Kidnapping victims--Fiction