Nothing at the Superior Thinking and Advanced Research Academy is as it seems and Amanda Forsythe, its newest, brightest student, is about to discover why.Amanda Forsythe, an independent-minded eleven-year-old with a stratospheric intellect, enters her schools science fair with a project on interstellar travel. Despite its brilliance, the project loses and Amanda is humiliated that is, until she is approached by two scientists from the STAR Academy. The Academy is an elite boarding school with a simple but ambitious mandate: to cultivate the greatest scientists of tomorrow. They offer Amanda a full scholarship.After taking up residence at the remote, fortress-like Academy, Amanda settles into an exciting life of new friends and supportive teachers, and though everything seems too good to be true, Amanda makes a disturbing discovery. Against almost impossible odds, Amanda must find a way to escape the school and alert the world to what is really going on behinds its walls.From the Trade Paperback edition.