<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 1442475102 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen </Td> </Tr> <P> Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 is a 2011 young adult / science fiction novel by Richard Paul Evans, and published by Glenn Beck's owned Mercury Ink . The story follows Michael Vey, a teenager who is diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and has the ability to pulse or surge electricity out of the palms of his hands . It is the first book in what is to be a heptalogy . </P> <P> Both Michael Vey and Taylor Ridley receive scholarships from the prestigious Elgen Academy . When Michael tells his mother about the scholarship, she immediately makes him leave PizzaMax, the restaurant where they are eating . On their way to the car, a man attempts to rob them . When Michael shocks him, another man appears accompanied by two teenagers . The man reveals himself to be Dr. Hatch . Michael then passes out after being drained of his electricity by Nichelle, one of the teenagers . When Michael wakes up, he is in a hospital and Ostin's mother tells him that his mom has been kidnapped . Meanwhile, Taylor has been taken captive from her cheerleading practice after a horrible headache to Elgen Academy, where she finds out that she has an identical (but evil, to be found out later in the story) twin, named Tara . </P>

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