The First Star

by Maureen Crisp

Overview

Noah can’t wait to go home. He doesn’t fit in and his family won’t miss him.
He never dreamed he would end up living in a nightmare. Who can he trust?
The pirates who take him in, his protector who abandoned him, or is he just bait in an elaborate trap?

The First Star is the 3rd book in the Starlight series. The Fraser family is caught between worlds, hunted by aliens, and holding the key to the survival of Earth.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165985362
Publisher:	Marmac Media
Publication date:	12/12/2022
Series:	Starlight
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	264 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Maureen Crisp lives in New Zealand where she dreams up stories to get her out of any boring things she has to do. She loves writing for children and has published plays and junior fiction in the New Zealand School Journal and for Penguin. Maureen is a primary school teacher by trade and a geek by inclination. She writes a mix of contemporary and science fiction stories to disguise the fact that she is overly fascinated by Mars, the robot landers and space exploration.
Maureen is active in the New Zealand children’s writing community where she has planned and run two national conferences for children’s writers. She has been writing a weekly blog on publishing news from around the world along with writing and marketing tips for authors for over ten years. Maureen is a member of the FaBo collective of writers who write competition story prompts for children in New Zealand schools and the Convener of the Wellington Children’s Book Association.
In 2017 her peers awarded her the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding services to Children’s Literature. In 2018 Maureen was on the judging panel for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.