The institute

In the depths of the Maine forests, there is a dark government facility where children abducted from all over the United States are imprisoned. They undergo a series of tests and procedures aimed at integrating their extraordinary talents—telepathy and telekinesis—to generate a focused effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit at the facility. He is just a twelve-year-old boy, except that he is not only smart but very smart and has another talent the facility wants to exploit... In the facility's playground and miserable corridors, where posters declare that "just another day in paradise," Luke and his friend Kalisha and the other children have no doubt that they are prisoners and not guests. There is no hope of escape.....