Ruan Sabre, a strange boy with white hair and lavender eyes, is a student at Clinton Street School in Toronto. But he holds an amazing secret: his family was born on a habitable star, Fiddler's Green. The Sabre family is light years ahead of humanity. They are able to think rapidly, change their appearance at will and travel at warp speed. Early in the school year, Ruan develops friendships with students that include Astrid Farrow, Alistair Peebles and Finian Gloue. Because of their potential to help others, Ruan's parents ask the young adults to join the Earthly Circle presided over by Ruan's father, Onyx Sabre. Meanwhile, Alistair is getting online messages from Not-Ned, an evil creature who spends every waking moment in his laboratory on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, with his dull-minded but fawning tribe of Morbid Pranksters. He seeks to thwart the Sabres in their attempts to show Earthlings how they must make significant changes to how they look after their planet Earth. Only time will tell whether Alistair will take the bait. In this novel, advanced people from a distant star recruit young Earthlings to help them rearrange the world's priorities-while their nemesis works to stop them.