Books with author J. Nelle Patrick

In 2010, the Mars Rover named "Spirit" had stopped sending signals back to NASA. In 2011, NASA ceased all efforts to communicate with the rover and called the mission complete. But something unexpected happened: Spirit started to send signals again. The weird thing was that the signal was nothing that Spirit had been programmed to send. It was as if something or someone had taken over the rover. The Nanoagents have been tasked to figure out what's going on. But how will they get to Mars? And when they get there, what are they going to find? Seth, Ajita, Jaden, Cheryl, Chen, Bits, and Rez will have to work together through node networks, forcefields, mechs, and battle drones if they're to succeed in learning the secret behind why the Mars Rover Spirit has come back online. Will they even survive?

A secret research facility has gone dark and the Nanoagents are sent to find out what happened. The problem is that the facility is on the moon! The team works with NASA to determine a way to get to the moon. Once there they learn that a group of aliens has taken the Moon Base crew hostage. Seth, Ajita, Jaden, Cheryl, and Chen have to work together to figure out how to free the hostages and take back Moon Base. But there is a problem... The aliens (known as Klakzaskians) that have taken over the base are not the ones running the show, they’re just following orders. The alien in-charge is a Zbrakni, just like the alien named “Xabigan” that Seth had run into a few months earlier. His name is “Civugan” and he has learned a way to make the Klakzaskians do whatever he wants, and one of the things he wants to do is conquer Earth! Can the Nanoagents get the Klakzaskians on their side? Will they be able to work with these new aliens to take Civugan down and get back control of Moon Base? The Nanoagents will have to rely on each other if they’re going to free the hostages and save the Earth from certain doom.

Seth Brennan is a typical, run-of-the-mill kid genius who is leading the school’s computer club into the upcoming science fair. Almost. He was actually orphaned at the age of 9 when his parents were killed in a car crash. Since then he's been moved from home to home in search of a permanent situation. The only family he really has is the computer club, which just happens to be full of other kids who were orphaned similarly. One night, while working on ideas for the science fair, Seth gets an email from Xabigan Industries. The email promises a new piece of technology that will revolutionize the way people use the Internet. And it includes free shipping! The problem is that a lot of computer-savvy kids have gone missing over the last few months, so Seth wants to be careful with this new piece of tech. Unfortunately, his friend and next-door neighbor, Chen, also got the email from Xabigan Industries and he’s never careful with anything. When Seth gets home from school that night he learns that Chen has disappeared! Could Xabigan Industries be behind these disappearances? Could this new technology have some sinister application that nobody knows about? Seth has to connect the tech, outwit a couple of robots, foil the plans of a malevolent alien, and try to save Chen before it's too late!