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Young readers will find action, suspense, and a perilous battle between good and evil in The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted from New York Times bestselling author Conor Grennan. For ages 10 and up, this dystopian fantasy novel follows a boy's unlikely journey to save humanity as he unravels his true identity and the responsibility it comes with.Jack Carlson is dreading a class presentation when he suddenly finds himself transported to the Hadley Academy, a secret institution that tracks teens with unlikely gifts and trains them to protect the world from an unseen squad of killers. But Jack isn't the only one who doesn't know what he's doing at Hadley. Despite indications that he is the one prophesied to end the ancient Reaper War, Jack appears to have no extraordinary abilities.
About the Author
Conor Grennan is the author of the New York Times best-selling and #1 international best-selling memoir Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. Little Princes has been translated into 15 languages. He is also the author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted, the first book in a series, due out Oct. 8th, 2019.Conor is the founder of Next Generation Nepal (NGN) , a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families in Nepal. For his work with the trafficked children of Nepal, he was recognized by The Huffington Post as a 2011 Game Changer of the Year. In 2014, he was named a recipient of the Unsung Heroes of Compassion, which was awarded to him by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.Currently, Conor serves as the Dean of Students for the MBA program at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he is responsible for more than 2000 full-time and part-time MBA students.Grennan is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the NYU Stern School of Business. He resides in New Canaan, Connecticut with his wife Liz and his two children, Finn and Lucy.
