Skylar Mars and the Stolen Egg (Volume 1)

Skylar Mars was a regular teenager growing up on Hummassa, a backwater planet on the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy. When raiders attack his planet, his life is turned upside down. Suddenly orphaned, Skylar is taken across the galaxy to Stars’ End Academy and dropped in the midst of more species than he’d ever encountered before. He starts making friends quickly, first with his roommate Del, a Tursiops boy from an aquatic world, then with Solaria, a cat-like Panterian. With the blossoming ability to feel the other people’s emotions and occasionally hear their thoughts, Skylar fights to find a place in the universe he never expected to experience. When Solaria rescues a strange egg from another student after a field trip, the three friends find themselves the foster parents of a strange and protected life form. As chaos becomes a larger and larger part of their lives, they decide it’s time to get their new pet back to his home planet. Little do they know the dangers the wait for them on the strange restricted world. Circumstances out of his control might force Skylar to stay on Armstrong’s Ring for the rest of his life. After discovering a galaxy full of possibilities does Skylar want to risk being planet bound?