Mayflower Project (Remnants)
K.A. Applegate, author of the wildly popular Animorphs books, begins a  brand new series with a bang. In the grippingMayflower Project, the  first of the Remnants series, she establishes several diverse characters and the  tensions and alliances between them and sets them on their way into the wild  blue yonder. Hip lingo, faintly futuristic technologies, and kid-next-door  characterizations draw readers in--the plot hooks 'em for good.The cast of characters? A 14-year-old technogeek who calls himself Jobs after  computer king Steve Jobs; the angry, aggressive son of America's African  American woman president; a dreamy, psychic boy, adopted as a toddler from an  orphanage in Chechnya; and a driven, strikingly beautiful, yet horribly  disfigured girl who calls herself 2Face. The year is 2011 and these four, along  with 76 others, are destined to meet on a hastily jerry-rigged shuttle whose  sole aim is to leave Earth before the giant asteroid that is hurtling through  space blows the planet to smithereens. Amid confusion, skepticism, and sheer  panic as the world comes to terms with its impending, inevitable doom, the  chosen few are whisked to Cape Canaveral to board a pitifully small, shabby  steel tube NASA has optimistically named theMayflower. They leave  everything behind, including any hope of returning; vast, endless space is the  only certainty in their future.Applegate's hungry Animorphs fans, perhaps a little older now, will be thrilled  with her latest series, knowing the 80 earth escapees have many, many riveting  adventures ahead of them. After all, the sky's the limit. (Ages 9 and older)--Emilie Coulter--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.