GRAVEYARD SHIFT ACADEMY: Book Two: The Engine Room A Working Class Youth Series

Five children of graveyard shift workers—Miles, Esperanza, Kwame, Jin, and Aaliyah—discovered the Graveyard Shift Academy, an underground school hidden beneath an abandoned shipping yard in Oakland. Built generations ago by night-shift workers, the Academy trained each child in the trade of their parent: mechanics, nursing, transit, logistics, and crane operations. After passing a final test that proved they could only succeed together, the five graduated and began carrying the Academy’s knowledge into the world above. As the first book ended, the bell began warming up for a new class.

This is Miles’s story.