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Kaufman, Amie. AURORA RISING New York : Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2019 IL YA ISBN 9781524720964 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 In the year 2380, cadets graduating from Aurora Academy are getting placed on missions throughout the galaxy. Tyler Jones is ready to captain the perfect squad, but an error on his part forces him to take over a motley crew consisting of a sociopath, a tech wiz, an angry alien warrior, a punk pilot, and an arrogant diplomat. But, they aren’t his biggest worry. The girl he saved from being trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries-- and the reason why he is captaining a group of misfits-- is now part of the crew and might be the catalyst to a war that’s been brewing. To Tyler’s surprise, his crew may be the galaxies' last hope. (Florida Teen Reads nominees 2021) Booktalk #2 You know the story of Sleeping Beauty, right? A beautiful princess is trapped in an enchanted sleep until a dashing prince rescues her and they live happily ever after. Well, this is not that story. Sleeping Beauty ends when the princess wakes up, but that is where Aurora Rising by sci-fi author duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff begins. It is the year 2380 and there is tenuous interstellar peace between the humans, the Syldrathi, and the Betraskan. Graduating at the top of his class, human Tyler Jones is prepared to lead the highest-ranking squad on glorious interplanetary missions to maintain order in the galaxy – or at least he was until he missed the squad draft to rescue a mysterious girl locked in cryo-sleep on an abandoned ship, floating in interdimensional space. Now, he’s saddled with a lackluster crew of misfits and deployed on a low-level, definitely not-glorious errand. Just when things look like they can’t get any worse, the recently awakened Aurora stows away on Tyler’s ship and attracts the attention of the dreaded Global Investigation Agency. Pursued by anonymous interrogators, Tyler, Aurora, and the squad are now outlaws of the very galaxy they are trying to save. Fans of James Corey’s Expanse series will appreciate this banter-filled, quick-paced space opera and its oddball crew. (Kristine Sandy, Lakeside School, for Evergreen Book Award) |
| SUBJECTS: Space flight -- Juvenile fiction. Human-alien encounters -- Juvenile fiction. Adventure stories. |
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