M.A.G.N.E.T.S.

Because I'm much too lazy to actually do some real writing, I've decided to put out what I know about this book so that when I randomly start ranting about it on some other post... there's a chance of keeping up.
M.A.G.N.E.T.S. is a working title for the first book in the series. It stands for Magically Advanced Group Network for Educating Talented Students, which is the semi-humorous name for... a magically advanced group network for, you get the idea. It's a group of what I call 'specialized' people who go into certain schools as teachers to train and protect specialized children who otherwise would have no idea what to do with their gifts.
Being 'specialized' means you have some sort of relationship with, well, anything, really. One of my characters has the ability to control how time is perceived by the people around him. Another can talk to lizards. Yet another can influence peoples' brain waves by talking, and another can control the way certain types of grain grow to produce better types of bread. It could be anything. It's strictly genetic, getting a specialization, and you have to have two specialized parents to create a specialized child. Specialized adults get together more often than you would think (there's only about a thousand of them worldwide, most of them concentrated in the US, since that's where I'm writing about) because they're often traveling together to avoid the antagonist, who I will get to later. Anyway, when a child is born to two specialized parents, he or she is usually taken from his or her parents and put into an adoptive home so that the M.A.G.N.E.T.S. can hide the child's identity from the antagonist for as long as possible. The adoptive parents are unaware of their child's specialization.
In my story, I'm focusing on eight specialized students and their M.A.G.N.E.T.S. teacher. They are as follows:
Abigail, the one who can influence people by talking.
Charlie, who can control perception of time.
Hugo, who can confuse people by literally sucking the concentration out of their brains.
Lillian, who can do just about anything with certain types of grain.
Maria, who is very closely connected with trees and can make anything out of wood.
Xin (temporary name), who can control anything adhesive.
Hailey, whose specialization I'm unsure about. Either she'll have special singing powers (like a Siren) or she will be influential in a way more similar to Abigail's.
And Billie, who can talk to lizards.
Their teacher's name is Mr. Hibbins and he can control the way rooms and buildings appear to people. (Example: he 'creates' a huge room out of a closet by making it appear large to the people inside it.)
All eight of them were adopted and are unaware of that, except for Billie. Billie's parents (his mother, mostly) wanted to keep him, so he lived with them until he was six. When he was six, they were murdered by the antagonist, and he was adopted by Hugo's parents.
I guess I should say something about the antagonist now. Her name is Addison, more often called Addy, and she can talk to and control snakes, and also is 'venomous'. She doesn't have to bite you, she can just scratch you with her nails. It's  not as strong as snake venom and pretty much just causes irritation unless she gets you really badly. She has a plan to destroy all specialized people in the world.
Obviously this seems kind of redundant, since she herself is specialized, but she's managed to brainwash thousands of people into following her cause and apparently plans to commit suicide once she's certain the last specialized person is dead. (This is a lie; she just wants to get all of the specialized people out of the way and then pretty much the world. It's more complicated than that but since I won't be getting that deep into her motives for several more books it's all that needs to be known now.)
Since she has several thousand people on her side, it's pretty hard to hide from her, but the M.A.G.N.E.T.S. people are good at it. They make sure all of the specialized children are adopted into families from the same area so that they will all go to the same school and can be looked after by whatever specialized person has been put in that area. (This is how eight specialized students came to be in Mr. Hibbins's seventh period class when there are only maybe two hundred specialized children in the entire country.)
The basic plot idea is that the eight students are in a class together, and they're trained to use their specializations to their advantage, and they become really good friends. They learn the basics of Addy's whole plot as well, enough that they know she's dangerous. I know how I want it to end but the middle is just a big grey area right now. I'm getting there.
Certainly I'm forgetting something, but I want to do some actual writing before I go to bed. So, bye.