We loved the story line -- So Cal surfers ditch school one day and rescue an alien princess whose ship has crashed in to the Pacific Ocean. Think Star Wars meets Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! Anyhow, there are four books in the series now, a fifth in the works, and they are a lot of fun.
The boys will love the technology and adventure, the girls will love the romance, something for everyone and "young teen appropriate." There is talk of a movie deal, so our autographed copies may be very valuable some day! Thank you, Tom. Here are the books in the series:
Book I, Gamadin: Word of Honor: "Sixteen-year old Harlowe Pylott and Matt Riverstone are body surfing the gnarliest waves of the new century when their fun is interrupted by a yacht capsizing off the Newport coast. After rescuing the famous movie star Simon Bolt and the half-alien socialite Leucadia Mars from certain death, Fate sends them on the greatest ride of their lives. Robobs and the undog are only the beginning! Dakadude killers have swooped down from the heavens looking for the galaxy's most powerful weapon: an ancient Gamadin spaceship named Millawanda. If the Daks cannot capture Millawanda, they will kill her while she is still weak and unprotected . . . along with the Earth and anyone else who gets in their way" [from Amazon blurb]
Book II,Gamdin: Mons
Book III, Gamadin: Distant Suns
Book IV, Gamadin: Gazz
Our other author event during Teen Read Week was with Melinda R. Morgan, who spoke to the reading clubs at all three Temecula high schools at Barnes & Noble (thanks Regina, B&N super community relations manager who arranged this!). The first in a series about a young woman who discovers that she has a guardian angel and a destiny to fulfill:
"The cold rain drummed the memory of the horrible crash into my mind-mom
dead, my hand ruined. Then a year later, coming out of a coma to realize
my full-ride scholarship was gone and I'd never play the piano again.
But the worst of it was nobody believed me-the voices, someone holding
me in the mangled car, mom being ripped away from me.So here I am in
Anderson, Wyoming, living with Uncle Connor while Dad's on assignment in
Europe. School started and I met Jonathan, amazingly handsome
Jonathan. He made me feel like life was beginning again-until I
discovered that mom's death wasn't an accident, that a supernatural
realm was trying to draw me into a coterie hundreds of years old, and
that my friend Eric wanted to destroy me.Not the easiest way to begin my
senior year.." [Amazon blurb]
