Bart gets a fever and has to stay home from
school, so his
mother takes a day off work to stay with him. But the day is September
11, 2001, and her office is in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. His father, estranged from his
mother for the past six months, is killed. When the press gets wind of it, they make him Miracle Boy, whose fortuitous illness saved his mother''s life. He gets a lot of press, as a result of which he is offered a full scholarship the prestigious Baileywell Academy, known to the locals as Bullyville.
It''s well named. Bart agrees to go to make his mother happy, and almost immediately begins being bullied in subtle ways. Still coping with grief over his father''s death, at first he hides his experiences at
school from his mother. But as the bullying gets less subtle, he retaliates in a way that not only brings it to everyone''s attention, but sets off an unexpected chain of events.