After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and
their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick
opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just
the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk stored up there. After
getting rid of the odd antiques in a garage sale, Nick befriends some local
kids-Mitch, Caitlin, and Vincent-and they discover that all of the objects have
extraordinary properties. What's more, Nick figures out that the attic is a
strange magnetic vortex, which attracts all sorts of trouble. It's as if the
attic itself