Discover the birth of one of the greatest hero teams of all time, the X-Men, as an ambitious Professor X does his best to find peace in a world of adversity in The Uncanny X-Men. Professor Charles Xavier has always been different. Charles is a mutant, and possesses miraculous powers of mind control. But Charles has a dream for humans and mutants to live together in peace. And so he has formed the X-Men to fulfill his dream and rid the world of violence agaisnt man --or mutant. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Marvel Picture Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.