Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucers from an alien world which begins a series of events culminating in the ultimate encounter when human and aliens make peaceful contact.

"Describes aliens and alien encounters, including history and current research"--Provided by publisher.

When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.

Christina Starspeeder goes to a new Jedi Academy campus.

Twin seventeen-year-old brothers Sean and Dillon meet their new neighbor Colonel Carver, who has come to Earth, an outpost among dozens of human-occupied planets in the galaxy, to recruit the boys to join the Human Assembly, but first they must complete their training and discover the source of recent disturbances to interplanetary peace.

Petra Peña wants nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth....

Roan Novachez enters his second year at Jedi Academy thinking it will be easy, but he couldn't have been more wrong when faced with alien poetry tests, menacing robots, flight simulation class, online bullies, and a girl who is mad at him.

Follows Emperox Grayland II as she fights a desperate final battle for her crown and empire while striving to save her citizens from eternal intergalactic isolation.