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Review Summaries
"This is book 2 of Starbridge. At the Starbridge academy, Tesa is a american indian who was born deaf. Earth has a chance to get first contact, but the Grus are a bird who has such a high pitched cries, that humans can not stand it. They talk with sign language. Tesa may be the perfect person to go live with the Grus and prove that they are intelligent. The only problem is that there are people, humans as well as some aliens that don't want the Earth to have a first contact. Tesa finds out that there are not one, but two intelligent creatures on Trinity."
Ed Phillips, Resident A.C. Crispin Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 20% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- generally friendly contact with alien(s)
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- diplomat
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Setting
Terrain
- Asteroid
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- unfriendly aliens
- primitive aliens
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
How much dialogue?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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