The Secrets of Star Whales

By Rebecca Thorne

A young engineer-musician uncovers cosmic secrets as a mysterious teacher reveals the truth about star whales.

4.3/5 Goodreads · 105 ratings

228 pages

$11.99Save 5%

In stock. Also at Amazon or Bookshop.

Bookroo's summary

Maxion Belmont, torn between engineering and music, faces a cosmic mystery on space station Azura. When a peculiar substitute teacher arrives, claiming star whales exist, Max and his classmates embark on a thrilling quest. As they delve deeper, they realize they're not alone in the hunt, and some seekers have sinister motives. Can Max balance his passions and uncover the truth before it's too late?

From the publisher

On the small space station Azura, Maxion Belmont is constantly torn between his two passions–engineering and music. Both are hobbies handed down from his father, who died two years ago. While his hydrodriver is great for repairing starship parts, his father’s old string instrument tugs at the latent grief Max hides from his mom and classmates with each chord he strums. When a foreign starship appears on the horizon, Azura welcomes its first tourist in years. But there’s something weird about Mr. Hames, the stranger-turned-substitute-teacher. He has no idea how to teach and keeps raving about the existence of alien creatures in the vacuum of space: star whales. As Max and the rest of Mr. Hames’s class-turned-starship-crew begin to uncover the mysteries of the star whales, they discover they aren’t the only ones looking for the elusive creatures–and not every whaler has good intentions.

At a glance