# The Institute - Hardcover

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by **Stephen King** (Author)

**Now an MGM+ Original Series!**

**From #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since _It._ "This is King at his best" (_St. Louis Post-Dispatch_).**

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, "like the roach motel," Kalisha says. "You check in, but you don't check out."

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as _Firestarter_, and with the spectacular kid power of _It_, _The Institute_ "is another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable, all at once" (_The Boston Globe_).

### Author Biography

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes _Never Flinch_, the short story collection _You Like It Darker (_a _New York Times Book Review_ top ten horror book of 2024), _Holly_ (a _New York Times_ Notable Book of 2023), _Fairy Tale_, _Billy Summers_, _If It Bleeds_, _The Institute_, _Elevation_, _The Outsider_, _Sleeping Beauties_ (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: _End of Watch_, _Finders Keepers_, and _Mr. Mercedes_ (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel _11/22/63_ was named a top ten book of 2011 by _The New York Times Book Review_ and won the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works _The Dark Tower_, _It_, _Pet Sematary_, _Doctor Sleep_, and _Firestarter_ are the basis for major motion pictures, with _It_ now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

**Number of Pages:** 576

**Dimensions:** 1.8 x 9.3 x 6.5 IN

**Publication Date:** September 10, 2019

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Institute

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.3

**Point Value:** 27

## Details

- **Price:** 39.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thrillers

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