Gardner, Graham

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.

Fourteen-year-old Elliot Sutton arrives at his new high school determined he is not going to become a target for teasing; however, when a group of upperclassmen called the Guardians, who are obsessed with power, try to recruit him, Elliot must make a difficult decision.

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.