For ages 12+. Teenagers sent to international summer camp in Tibet have disappeared. Of two brothers, Peter and Michael, it is Michael who feels the deep mystical attraction of the high Himalayan mountains, the deserted, secret lamasery. Peter is sceptical, but Michael founds a secret order to perfect disciplines of mind and body to enable teens to change the world, even improve human nature itself. Desperate parents launch an expedition to find their missing children.

 

There are 169 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Bick Publishing House, U. S. .

Dale Carlson has been award three ALA Notable Books, the Christopher Award, three New York public library Bests Books for Teens, YALSA award, three Book of the Year Awards from "Foreword Magazine. "

This book has the following chapters: Preface; The End; The Arrival of the Parents; The Expedition; The Mountain of Truth; Michael; The Lamasery; The Foundation of the Order; The Children; Rules of the Order; the New Children; The Continuation of the Order; The Return of the Children; Third and Fourth Summers; Peter and Michael; The Beginning.