The Institute

One night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, a group of intruders silently murders Luke Ellis's parents and loads 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—“You check-in but you don’t check out. ”