Tangled planet / Kate Blair.

Title:

Author:

Blair, Kate

ISBN:

9781770865044

1770865047

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Info:

Toronto, Ontario :

Description:

259 pages ; 21 cm

Summary:

"It's taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa is on Beta Earth, she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between maintaining Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth"--Amazon.com

General Note:

"First published in the United States of America in 2018."--Title page verso.

Subject(s):

Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.

Space travelers -- Fiction.

Life on other planets -- Fiction.

Colonization -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

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It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates.

The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth.

If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 8 Up-Ursa is among the first colonists to arrive on Beta Earth, a planet that is being bioengineered for human life. As plans are followed to prepare Beta for inhabitation, settlers spend their time between the land and the spaceship, the Venture. When Ursa finds her brother-in-law dead in the forest after a community bonfire, fear and uncertainty about the new planet grip the colonists. Despite her claims of having seen an unidentified beast in the forest moments before finding the body, she is accused of murder. The colonists become divided; some feel it best to risk the unknown dangers of the planet, while others, including Ursa, wish to remain safely on the Venture until all possible dangers are identified. Meanwhile, the mysterious predator claims more and more victims. Blair's world-building is exceptional, immersing readers in the juxtaposition of the exciting unknowns of Beta and the comforting protocols and societal structure on the Venture. Ursa is a fully developed, likable yet flawed character who will push teens to consider if comfort is a worthy sacrifice for the potential greatness of the unknown. A robust cast of secondary characters, each layered with their own motivations, histories, and perspectives, round out the novel and propel its fierce pace. VERDICT A must-have for every library. This sci-fi mystery will be devoured by fans of Beth Revis's Across the Universe and Veronica Roth's "Divergent" series.-Amy McInerney, Falmouth Elementary School, ME © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.