"The Portal"

When twelve year old crippled, friendless Andrew Yeager is advanced from the sixth to the eleventh grade in his California school, he finds himself immediately alienated by his classmates. His extraordinary IQ, coupled with the fact that he wears a brace on one leg makes him an easy target for the class 'jocks' who bully him relentlessly about being a 'smart-ass geek and probably a fairy to boot'. However, at the end of the dreadful school year, everything changes for Andrew when his father...