The Silver Six
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Publisher Description
A group of orphans on the run search for a new home among the stars.
When a group of orphans are thrown together under mysterious circumstances, Phoebe and her pal Oliver lead them in a daring escape from their orphanage to an uninhabited moon. But their idyllic paradise is shattered when the powerful corporate boss who ordered the deaths of their parents sends a relentless henchman to track them down.
Now, with nowhere left to turn and time running out, Phoebe and her friends decide there's only one thing left to do: Fight back!
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In a bleak and urbanized future Boston, self-sufficient 12-year-old Phoebe Hemingway's luck runs out when she is found illegally living on her own and is placed into child welfare services. It's been a year since her parents and 10 others died in a shuttle accident while working for Craven Industries, an unscrupulous and omnipresent energy corporation that supplies the world with power. CEO Hayden Craven has an interest in Phoebe and pursues her relentlessly after she and five other kids escape the prisonlike orphanage to an abundantly vegetated moon. The six eventually discover that their parents all died in the same shuttle explosion, which certainly wasn't an accident, and that whatever they were involved with could bring down Craven. In their first comic for young readers, Lieberman (Harvest) and Rawlings deliver an earnest and enjoyable SF adventure, balancing thrilling action with chirpy dialogue, ably rendered in Rawlings's Blade Runner meets-Nickelodeon cartooning. The likeability of the characters shines through the somewhat formulaic plot, but the creators are clearly enjoying themselves, showing readers just how much can be overcome by working together. Ages 8 12.
