A Wobblegong and His Boy

By James Pyles

Remmie McNeal went to sleep at thirteen and woke up three hundred years later to find everything wrong. The colony AI has gone dark. The adults - all six thousand of them - are still frozen in their reconstruction creches. Only children woke up, and two hundred of them are now Remmie's problem.

Then a shapeshifting creature crawls out of the livestock vat and decides he's its human.

He names it Wobblegong.

With his small crew of kids improvising their way through running a colony they were never meant to run, Remmie realizes the problem goes deeper than a broken AI. The planet itself is changing. To fix it, Remmie will need to cross hundreds of kilometers of alien desert, navigate a rival colony's agenda, survive insects the size of buildings, and find the source of a signal that leads somewhere nobody expected.

Wobble will be right beside him the whole way.

A Wobblegong and His Boy is a science fiction adventure for boys 8 to 18, written in the tradition of Heinlein's classic juveniles and Andre Norton's colony novels - fast-paced, idea-driven, and built to hook the reader who thinks he doesn't like books.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197150727X
• ISBN13: 9781971507279
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Fox Cub Adventure Club
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7