TY - BOOK AU - King, Stephen, TI - The Institute T2 - Thorndike Press large print core SN - 9781432870126 AV - PS3561.I483 I57 2019b U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2019///. CY - [Farmington Hills, Mich] : PB - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, KW - Psychic ability KW - Fiction KW - Missing children KW - Telepathy KW - Kidnapping KW - Child abuse KW - South Carolina KW - fast KW - Large type books KW - Horror fiction KW - Paranormal fiction KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction KW - Science fiction KW - lcsh N2 - In the middle of the night, in a house in suburban Minneapolis, intruders murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. Other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--are also here. Some, like Luke, are in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this most sinister of institutions, the director and her staff attempt to extract from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute ER -