Mark of the Dragonfly

When Caleb Ferguson was about two years old, his father hid him at Fair Meadow Orphanage to keep him safe from the evil Shadow Army. Renamed Colin Jones at the orphanage, Caleb spends ten years filled with ten to twelve hour days of hard work, with only meager amounts of disgusting food. Only his dream-filled nights of fairies, leprechauns, and magical knights give his life any joy. After ten years of this life, the boy believes that this is normal for orphans like him. Caleb is twelve years old the day the strange and incredible Professor Thaddeus Myrddin Slimmerik appears. The Professor and his strange magical pocket watch turn the orphanage upside-down and inside-out and he whisks Caleb away to the land the boy once believed existed only in his imagination and dreams. Caleb discovers he is not who he thinks he is and his future is going be anything but normal.