1 in 100 children are born "different" and out of that only 1 in 1000 know. However many more people start discover they are different. As the information is leaked into the press many people want to know why this is happening. Xander didn't ask to be different. He didn't ask for the powers that would change his life forever. Most people think having superpowers would be cool, but for Xander, it is a curse. He can't control his powers and one mistake causes him to be enrolled in a boarding school for "special" children. However this is no ordinary school. Xander meets many new people who are different just like him. He now feels like he has to discover why him and thousand others are different. What will he do and how he will accomplish the dangerous task of surviving as a "different".