All they have to do is steal Mistress Jane’s most dangerous weapon from beneath the walls of her Lemon Fortress. Only four end up answering his call, working their way through all twelve clues and gathering for their initiation mission. Master George recruits hundreds of children from around the world.

An evil ex-Realitant named Mistress Jane has set up her base of operations there, and has launched an insane plan to destroy, recreate, and rule over all the realities.Īnd so a fresh class of Realitants is needed to stop her. Only lately have Master George and his strange companions discovered Reality Thirteen, where the Chi’karda-the force that creates different realities and enables certain people to move among them-exists in a dark and twisted, but very powerful form. And besides the twelve realities branching off the main trunk of “Reality Prime” (our version of the world), there are countless splinter realities that are fragmenting and fading. Still another world is way more technological than ours. These folks are in on the secret that quantum physicists have only guessed: that there are several parallel realities where the world is very different from ours. It turns out Tick is being recruited by an organization known as the Realitants. (short for Master George) begins sending Tick a series of clues, leading to an opportunity to save thousands of lives-but only if he has the courage to face danger and suffering, the cleverness to solve a series of puzzles, and the will to go through with an adventure fraught with spooky weirdness.

Few people would guess that such a boy would have the makings of a hero who might one day save the world. Purchase hereĪtticus Higginbottom, Tick to his friends, is a 13-year-old science geek who gets bullied at school, trips over his own feet, and plays champion-level chess.

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