The ratings are real. One quantity, 0 to 100, establishes your place in culture. Earn a high rating, as well as the world is usually yours for the

taking. But fall to zero, and you may as well cease to exist.

Societies thrive on purchase, and the Ranking System may be the best mark of organized sociable mobility. The higher it soars, the greater respected you are. The lower it plummets, the harder you must work to boost yourself. For the

students in the prestigious Maplethorpe Academy, each and every thing they actually is reflected within their rankings, updated daily and

available for all to see.

However when an take action of vandalism sullies the front doors of the institution, it sets off a chain response that will shake the lives of six special

students — and the world beyond.