In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Freight class. Eoin Colfer has created an eerie and captivating world - part Blade Runner, part futuristic Dickens - replete with nonstop action, humor, and a spellbinding cast of characters.