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    Mind over Matter
    Mind over Matter
    Mind over Matter
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    Mind over Matter

    By R. T. Martin

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    On his sixteenth birthday, Parker discovers he's developed the power of telekinesis. He's excited to use his new ability to stop some high school bullies, forming a ragtag crew with his friends. But after almost hurting someone by accident, Parker questions whether or not he wants to use his powers at all. That is, until a bullying prank goes wrong and one of his friends needs his help. Then Parker will have to decide if interfering is a risk he's willing to take.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781541517776
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    R. T. Martin

    R. T. Martin lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. When he is not drinking coffee or writing, he is busy thinking about drinking coffee and writing.

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      Mind over Matter - R. T. Martin

      Copyright © 2018 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

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      The images in this book are used with the permission of: iStock.com/Vladimirovic; iStock.com/tolokonov; iStock.com/monsitj; iStock.com/edge69; iStock.com/sinemaslow.

      Main body text set in Janson Text LT Std 12/17.5. Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Martin, R. T., 1988– author.

      Title: Mind over matter / R.T. Martin.

      Description: Minneapolis : Darby Creek, [2018] | Series: Superhuman | Summary: On his sixteenth birthday, Parker, once a loner, discovers he has the power of telekinesis and uses it to help new friends stand up to a bully.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017026511| ISBN 9781512498325 (lb) | ISBN 9781541510487 (pb) | ISBN 9781512498332 (eb pdf)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Psychokinesis—Fiction. | Ability—Fiction. | Bullying—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Theater—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M37346 Min 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026511

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      1-43587-33364-8/29/2017

      9781541517769 mobi

      9781541517776 ePub

      9781541517783 ePub

      For Dirk

      Sixteen years ago, on April 12, six people from around the country were born with a hidden special ability.

      On their sixteenth birthday, they each develop their special ability for the first time. Whether they can soar through the clouds, run faster than the speed of light, or tear through a brick wall, all the teenagers must choose how to use their powers. Will they keep their abilities secret? Will they use them only to benefit themselves? Or will they attempt to help others—even if the risks are greater than they could imagine? One way or another, each teen will have to learn what it means to be . . . superhuman.

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      Move it!

      Parker heard the words, followed by the crash of a student getting shoved into a nearby locker. He looked over and saw MJ Mursh, a senior, laughing with his friends and walking away from where Mark Pollack, a sophomore, bent down to pick up the books he’d just dropped.

      Some things never change, Parker thought to himself, walking past Mark as he headed toward the school theater. This happened nearly every day.

      No one paid Parker any attention as he moved through the halls. He had trouble being noticed at all, and not just by other students. Last year, a teacher had marked him as absent for a class because simply she hadn’t realized he was there.

      Sometimes Parker preferred things this way. Not being noticed meant less of a chance that he’d get picked on. He’d rather stay under the radar if it meant people left him alone.

      He’d had a few friends in middle school, but most of them had gone to a different high school once they all got to ninth grade, and the one or two that did come to the same school lost touch pretty quickly after they joined different clubs and sports. Nowadays, Parker tended to prefer solitary activities over social ones, and making new friends wasn’t exactly in his wheelhouse, so he soon found it was easier to just keep to himself.

      Then last year he signed up to work in the theater crew for the fall play just to have something to put on a college application. Ms. Frasier, the theater director and drama teacher, had put him to work building props because the students who did it previously had all graduated. The quiet, secluded workshop and the nature of crew members remaining behind the scenes suited him well, and Parker had signed up to work on the crew for every production since.

      He was heading to the workshop now. This year’s spring production was just getting started, and Parker had to build numerous set pieces—trees, bushes, benches, a rocking chair, the side of a house with a window and a door, an entire living room.

      He and Ms. Frasier would go over designs for set pieces, and he would work on them in the solitude of the theater’s workshop. During the actual performances, Parker, along with several other students, would wear all black clothing and move sets

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