A cage of butterflies (UQP young adult fiction)

"We're like a new toy ... or a new energy source, and they're just playing with us, experimenting. Working out what we can do. What they can do with us." Mikki and the others live at "the farm", an advanced learning facility, a think-tank for a bunch of young people with very high IQs. But what is really going on at the farm? And what about the five much younger children known as the Babies, frail as butterflies? Brian Caswell's new novel explores the power of love . and presents readers with an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of suspense. SHORTLISTED CBC Children's Book of the Year Awards (1993) An advanced learning institute for young people with very high IQs is the scene for sinister goings on. Mikki and the others living there must go to the aid of five younger children whose exceptional abilities have made them the victims of some unethical and dangerous research. Suggested level: secondary A scientist imprisons some highly gifted children, hoping to exploit their telepathic abilities, but lives are endangered when a drug company sponsor demands faster results from the project.