Fast forward to the future, and join Puck, who feels she will never be as smart as her brilliant research scientist parents, and who is now speeding along on board a spaceship en route to joining them. Along the way Puck makes friends with an alien named Hush, and they learn to trust each other, as they seek the Soo, a Shoowa symbol of freedom and victory, that has gone missing on board this ship, a small and dangerous world of deceit. 240 pages Ages 9-12