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Atherton: The House of Power is a teen fiction novel written by Patrick Carman. Edgar is a lonely boy who has a special ability to climb the cliffs that divided the three worlds. His home is a humble grove, the only reason he calls it home is because it’s the only one he’s ever known, witch has beautiful high lands and sinister secrets where all the water is regulated by the few privileged. And a wasteland if it exsits life there is less than civilized. Edgar is looking for a lost treasure, with little memory of what he’s been through hidden in the middle of the rock walls witch lomes above the grove, but the treasure is not as glourious as he thought. Soon Edgar finds out that the place he called home, Atherton is not as secur as he could ever expected.