Demeter

Usually being beaten up and hospitalized by the school bully isn't considered to be a great turning point in your life. Fifteen year old Ryder faces some of the common challenges of any young man his age: isolation, sibling rivalry, first love, and bullying. Life takes a sudden change when he is invited, along with his sister and five classmates to spend a year abroad. Read the contract! Instead of going to Europe on Earth Ryder and his friends are conscripted for a year of service in Demeter, an asteroid over a hundred light years from Earth. The good news is that Ryder gets closer to his classmate Cynthia Flores and he gets to develop his talent at gaming with systems that deal with real life scenarios including saving Demeter itself from invasion. The bad news is that his reckless younger sister has a talent for mischief and disaster. And now, she and Cynthia have been kidnapped and it's up to Ryder to figure out how to save them before someone kills them all.

After surviving two kidnappings the year before Ryder and his friends think they are done with Demeter. But when a mysterious illness starts manifesting in Ryder's little sister Debbie the team knows they have to find a way to return to Demeter before its to late. But not all is safe the mysterious planners of the nefarious plots last year are still unknown and the group must survive more attempts on their lives. Will they survive another adventure on Demeter?

All is quiet, or is it? What looks to be a large PerSian invasion fleet is on the edge of Demeter space and the Saggitarian Armada that is supposed to defend Demeter leaves port. This leaves Ryder and his team in a struggle to find a way of defending Demeter with the scraps left behind by the armada. Meanwhile a secret lurks in the inner tunnels of Demeter that could either save or destroy the planet, and explain the attempts on the team's lives. Will the team be able to find the answers it needs and resources in time to save Demeter from complete Destruction?

Ryder is faced with new dillemmas on every hand. Things are going well with Cynthia, but now he must meet her father. Also to bring peace to the Orion's Spur he must entrust his life to Debbie, who will be flying him through an asteroid field only so Ryder can attempt to negotiate with the pirates of Haumeah to convince them to have a show down with the Sagittarius league.

Teen and Young Adult Science Fiction at its best. The epic conclusion to the Orion's Spur series . Death looms with every choice. Ryder must find a way to end the war between Sagittarius and PerSius or there will be nothing left of the Spur. What is the cost of peace? Reading this and the earlier books has been a great ride. I like the world---universe building that the author has done. The settings and characters stay with you long after you finish the book.

Twenty years after The Event reshaped humanity, the world is a scaled-down version of itself. Shrunk to less than two inches tall to combat overpopulation and environmental collapse, people live in miniaturized cities and use advanced technology to navigate their world. Eric Brice, the son of a hero lost to a bird attack, is part of the first generation born into this miniaturized world. On a class field trip to Cape Canaveral, disaster strikes when their toy-sized bullet train is stopped by a branch, and giant birds descend upon them. From tornadoes, towering ruins and colossal threats like cockroaches and snakes, Eric and his friends must fight to survive. In the process, they discover a shocking truth about The Event and the powers behind it. Perfect for middle-grade readers and adults alike, Alan D. Hansen's PROJECT LILLIPUT is a fast-paced survival adventure set in a world where the tiniest mistakes can have gigantic consequences.