Twelve-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped in the night and wakes up in a facility that looks like his old bedroom but isn't — a covert institute that harvests psychic children for a purpose none of them fully understand, until a former cop stumbles onto the truth from the outside.
Books mentioned in The Institute (3)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs: “He had brought Naked Lunch, but one of the proctors appropriated it (along with his phone and everyone else's), telling Luke it would be returned to him later.”
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Seuss: “"Sort of like in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins?" "Bartholomew who?" "A Dr. Seuss book..." — genuine dialogue comparison.”
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: “In the Suburban, Tim had thought of Bonnie and Clyde; Kalisha thought of the Poe story about the House of Usher.”