Flight of the raven Book

Elijah Raymond once lived in an experimental group home called the Ark. When the Ark was disbanded, Elijah ran away and was found and taken hostage by a group of environmental terrorists. Elijah can't escape, but he can enter into the consciousness of animals and people—powers that would be useful to the terrorists but that he hides. Gradually, Elijah replaces the Ark family with a lonely girl named Amber and her violent, charismatic father. But the memory of the Ark, with its dreams of peace, hasn't completely faded away. Stephanie S. Tolan follows her magnificent Welcome to the Ark with the adventures of a boy who longs to fly free.

Elijah, a nine-year-old African American with unusual mental powers and a special ability to reach into the natural world, becomes a hostage of a terrorist militia group and finds himself in a world of violence.