Nicholas Benedict is 9 years old and a very unusual child. He is afflicted with narcolepsy, which means that when he becomes excited or emotionally stressed, he falls asleep instantaneously wherever he is or whatever he is doing. He is extremely intelligent and observant, which is grating to the adults he is around. And Nicholas is an orphan, on his way to his newest orphanage, Rothschild’s End,  as this book opens. Nicholas arrives at a train station to meet Mr. Collum, the director of his […]