Carter and the Silent Frequency: An Empath's First Week at Alien Summer Camp

Carter can hear what nobody says out loud.

Anger hums low. Joy crackles bright. Grief drops like pressure before a storm. Ten-year-old Carter is an empath - and the longer his wavy hair grows, the clearer he hears the emotional frequency broadcasting off every person around him. It's his secret, and it's made him the kid everyone counts on.

Then his parents ship him off-world to Camp Helix, a summer camp on the alien world of Vaelith-9 - but first, they shave his head.

Suddenly the frequency is silent. No warnings before a bully swings. No reading the counselors. No easy answers. Just a quiet, buzz-cut kid on a planet with two suns, surrounded by campers with powers of their own: a boy who glows in the dark, a girl who moves in blurs, a crystal being who clouds over when she's scared - and a camp director whose file drawer holds a secret about why Carter's hair really had to go.

Carter and the Silent Frequency is Book 1 of the four-book Carter at Camp Helix series - a full-color, 40-page sci-fi graphic novel about losing the thing that made you special and finding out what's left. For readers 8-12.