Freakling
A thrilling, fast-paced dystopian novel about the dangers of unchecked power and the dilemmas facing a boy torn between two ways of life.In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi — the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a...
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A thrilling, fast-paced dystopian novel about the dangers of unchecked power and the dilemmas facing a boy torn between two ways of life.In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi — the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability, and Taemon is exiled to the powerless colony. The "dud farm" is not what Taemon expected, though: people are kind and open, and they actually seem to enjoy using their hands to work and play and even comfort their children. Taemon adjusts to his new life quickly, making friends and finding unconditional acceptance. But gradually he discovers that for all its openness, there are mysteries at the colony, too — dangerous secrets that would give unchecked power to psi wielders if discovered. When Taemon unwittingly leaks one of these secrets, will he have the courage to repair the damage — even if it means returning to the city and facing the very people who exiled him?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763659370 (0763659371)
Publish date: October 9th 2012
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Psi Chronicles (#1)
In this story, some people have psy abilities and others have nothing. The two types of people are separate. Inside the psy group, some are more powerful than others. Taemon is very powerful, but his family wants to downplay it because the most powerful are chosen and taken for their type of gove...
I just couldn't. Too simple for me to immerse myself (though the brother has some awful/awesome Peter Wiggin-type tendencies and ideas)- some will enjoy, but this wasn't for me. I could predict where some plotlines were headed as soon as the book got going, and the main plot did little to compel any...