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Polly dreams of charting the stars as a starship pilot, yet her aspirations seem impossible when she is enrolled in Earth’s prestigious Galileo Academy. Alone in a new world of interstellar potential, she finds a reluctant ally in her popular brother. Together, they investigate a series of perilous coincidences that appear to involve the academy’s high‑profile classmates, threatening to derail their future and the academy’s reputation.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Coming of Age/Teen Coming of Age
Authors: Carrie Vaughn
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