Sign-In
Cart
The Lost Synapse
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $30.99
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1038311594
ISBN13: 9781038311597
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Jan 29 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781038311597
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: Jan 29 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a future where AI is banned and the race to control human consciousness rages on, a young girl holds the key to the survival of humanity.
Ten-year-old Zephyr has a very different way of being in the world. She can feel the animals and trees around her and connect with the Mycelial Network-a mass of interwoven fungi fibers beneath the earth that joins all life on our planet. People, on the other hand, are trickier for Zephyr-except for her Gran. People have sticky energies that weigh her down and even hurt her if she is physically touched. Some have labeled her as autistic, while others see her as gifted. That is why, after Gran mysteriously disappears, Zephyr is accepted into Cloudhaven, an elite school for extraordinary children.
In addition to being a school, Cloudhaven is a powerful, privately funded research institute working to map and tap into the complete human brain. This brain-potential research has crossed ethical lines, and several Cloudhaven students, especially those without family, find themselves unwitting test subjects.
As Cloudhaven researchers attempt to use the Mycelial Network to connect students' brains to a digital world, several children become sick from these tests and start to disappear. Zephyr-with her unique ability to connect with the Mycelial Network and the world around her-knows the experiments must be stopped. Thankfully, she is not alone. Zephyr bands together with her new friend and fellow student, Saafir, to collect allies and prevent Cloudhaven from abusing students-and to stop them from creating a technology that would provide the institute with limitless power.
Ten-year-old Zephyr has a very different way of being in the world. She can feel the animals and trees around her and connect with the Mycelial Network-a mass of interwoven fungi fibers beneath the earth that joins all life on our planet. People, on the other hand, are trickier for Zephyr-except for her Gran. People have sticky energies that weigh her down and even hurt her if she is physically touched. Some have labeled her as autistic, while others see her as gifted. That is why, after Gran mysteriously disappears, Zephyr is accepted into Cloudhaven, an elite school for extraordinary children.
In addition to being a school, Cloudhaven is a powerful, privately funded research institute working to map and tap into the complete human brain. This brain-potential research has crossed ethical lines, and several Cloudhaven students, especially those without family, find themselves unwitting test subjects.
As Cloudhaven researchers attempt to use the Mycelial Network to connect students' brains to a digital world, several children become sick from these tests and start to disappear. Zephyr-with her unique ability to connect with the Mycelial Network and the world around her-knows the experiments must be stopped. Thankfully, she is not alone. Zephyr bands together with her new friend and fellow student, Saafir, to collect allies and prevent Cloudhaven from abusing students-and to stop them from creating a technology that would provide the institute with limitless power.
1 different editions
Also available
Also from
Louis, Brenda St
Also in
Young Adult Fiction
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
Hinds, Gareth
Paperback
From $11.99
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Alexie, Sherman
Paperback
From $9.99
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: (A Young Adult Dystopian Adventure of Survival, Identity, and a Divided Future World)
Ness, Patrick
Hardcover
$17.99
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Hart, Kate
Gansworth, Eric
Hardcover
$18.99
Once Upon a Broken Heart Collector's Edition: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition]
Garber, Stephanie
Hardcover
$35.15