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story identification - Looking for two stories about a telekinetic boy


I have been trying to find a book I read quite a few years ago. Well, there are 2, one being the sequel.


Now I'm sure my memory has been kind enough to mix parts of the 2 books, but I will do my best with the description.


The cover of the book had a hand print. As far as the story, a boy finds out he has some powers from some guy. I think he had a ring that allowed him to use his power. Later when training the boy, he has him learn to control his power by deflecting rocks or meteors or some rocky item. The boy ends up using too much force and shatters them, but eventually gets the hang of it. Another part close to the end, the boy has a vision, I think, of some other kid getting struck by lightning, so he figures out a way to save the kid, but gets struck by the lightning himself.



In the second book, I remember a part early on where a sign falls from a building toward some child, but the boy uses his power to save the kid; afterwards, no trace of the boy is found. A lady who witnessed it said something like it was her dead son (I'm guessing his mom from the previous book).


I'm having trouble remembering anything but that. I read them in '97 or '98, I believe. As far as the publication dates, I never checked.



Answer



I found this post while trying to answer essentially the same question. I read these books as a child and really enjoyed them, but hadn't thought of them for years. So, I spent a couple of hours on various search engines trying to find the titles, or the author, with no results.


Finally, I resorted to the online catalogue of the library system where I had checked the books out years ago. Page after page of young-adult science fiction later, I stumbled onto



by G. Clifton Wisler. These do not seem to have been very well known. I'm looking forward to reading them again and seeing if they are as good as I remember them to be.



A high school freshman knows that he is different, from his strange dreams, his precognition, his scientific understandings; yet in the space of a week his once ordinary life changes when the truth about himself is revealed.




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