John Smith, an English teacher running from his past, finds himself in the small, rural town of Mist Valley, a strange place filled with stranger people. The town is hidden by a thick, living cloud of Mist , emanating from the dark forest sitting just past the middle school. As John begins teaching, he realizes that his students are even stranger than their home. There’s a girl who moves through time backwards, a boy made out of television static, a psychic who catches the attention of dark forces beyond comprehension, boy prophesied to defend the town from evil, and half a dozen other weird, weird kids. But, as strange as they are, the students of John’s eighth-grade class are still just children, growing up and trying to figure out who they are, albeit in a town filled with magic.