num_pages: 320
description: Seventeen-year-old David Sullivans life is about to changeall because of one tiny priceless item found in the murky bottom of a Brooklyn water tower.Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesnt pay muchAlex Hollidays stores have muscled out most of the independent sellersbut it helps him and his mom make rent.No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller skilled at math better-looking. The rarer the sphere the more expensiveand the greater the improvement.When Sully meets Hunter a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres the two start searching together. One day they find a Golda color no one has ever seen. And when Alex Holliday learns what they have he will go to any lengths will use all of his wealth and power to take it from them.Theres no question the Gold is worth millions but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres but no one knows where they come from what their powers are or why theyre here.
language: English
title: Burning Midnight
publisher: Delacorte Press