€œA fantastic story, thrillingly told. This book has a superpower€"you can€t put it down.€ €"Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy  The truth about the Super children€"who have real powers like flight and super strength€"is finally exposed, and the town of Noble€s Green has created a special boarding school for its superpowered children. That€s where all Daniel€s friends are headed, while he€"regular kid that he is€"is headed to summer school.  But all is not well at the Academy for the Extraordinarily Gifted. A clique of popular kids (led by a pair of sinister twins) has taken over the school, and once again, it€s powerless Daniel who may be able to stop them. To do so, he will have to turn to his sworn enemy, the Shroud, for help.