Juno meets Alien in this launch title in a new series by Martin Leicht and Isla Neal, set on a spaceship full of pregnant teenagers trying to return to earth after being threatened with an alien invasion. Galactic battles and hilarity ensue.
The year is 2074, and 16-year-old Elvie Nara's dreams of becoming a space engineer are crushed after she "got the hots for Cole Archer" and got knocked up. After hearing the news, Cole bails, leaving Elvie with "one bun and no baker." To escape her arch-nemesis Britta McVicker, Elvie enrolls at the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers. Readers first meet her there, where she has been for three months, and with a due date three weeks away.
The Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers, aboard the spaceship Echidna, not only offers no protection for Elvie from Britta (who also is pregnant with Cole's child) but also fails to defend the students from their teachers, who turn out to be extraterrestrials. Fortunately, commandos have arrived to rescue the girls. Unfortunately for Elvie, Cole is one of them.
Sassy, tenacious and expectant mother Elvie goes through her unexpected pregnancy with no preachiness. Even though her unborn "Goober" just might be an alien, Elvie's maternal instincts kick in to defend it from ending up in the wrong, extraterrestrial hands with sheer willpower--and a ray gun. With a well-imagined mythology and entertaining friction between Elvie and Cole, a fun new trilogy is born. --Adam Silvera