Having been expelled from Theffects School for Troubled Boys, William Teller Fontaine ('Tell'), the son of a skiving small-town mayor returns home to find an empty house and a farewell letter from his father. Knowing his father to play an arcane prank every now and then, he thinks nothing of it—until the neighbors and representatives from a local orphanage show up.When Tell flees to a nearby wheat field and is greeted by a babbling, self-proclaimed ‘tree-expert’ who claims that Tel...

The sequel to TELL, OR THE ADVENTURES IN THEMIDDLE.Some want Tell dead, others want to exploit him. Most want him to go away and never return. Can Tell claim what's rightfully his in order to abolish the decree that made him an outcast in the first place? Or will his quest for power be his own undoing? It will take more than just another adventure. It will take resolution, willpower, and mastering the one thing Tell has yet to control: his imagination.