Stranger Things: Novel #1, Bond, Gwenda

Its the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldnt be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington.

But the world is changing, and Terry isnt content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code named MKULTRA. Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight lipped researchers . . . and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover.

But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory--and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner--lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, shell need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesnt know she exists--a young girl with unexplainable, superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008.