Book Synopsis
Smith Bay High senior Auckland Young is watching his life fall apart. His father’s small church is failing and his family is about to lose everything they own. Desperate to escape eviction Auckland turns a teacher’s casual offer of extra credit into an obsessive science project with the potential to make millions. Through trial and error and with the help of his younger sister, two runaway musicians, his school’s rebellious drug-dealing surf king, an exchange student from Bali and a Muslim refugee, Auckland creates Nightbook—a new technology that has the power to create lucid and life-changing dreams.
Science, religion and wealth collide when Auckland’s father betrays him by using
Nightbook to build up his struggling church and Google representatives arrive pushing hard to buy the revolutionary invention. Auckland and his young crew of high school students and runaways are torn between material wealth and altruistic action—do they make Nightbook free and available to all; or sell it