Crater (A Helium-3 Novel)

New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam, takes us on a whole-your-breath adventure across the moon in the first of his young adult series, Crater. 

€œReaders will be caught up in Homer Hickam's thrilling novel of life on the moon!€€"Donna VanLiere, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of The Good Dream and The Christmas Shoes

A mining colony on the moon. A deadly mission. And a secret bigger than two worlds.

It€s the 22nd Century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth.

Sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever. Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doesn€t think he can do it, but he has no choice. He must go.

With the help of Maria, the mine owner€s frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie€"a sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells€"Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies. He€ll battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon . . . and beyond.

€œLong-haul trucking on the Moon . . . with raiders, romance and a secret mission . . . High adventure on the space frontier.€ €"Kirkus Reviews