Books with author Kesten Harris

"Kesten Harris is a brilliant author. That is the word that kept coming to my mind as I was reading through his novel The Blue Barricade, brilliant. This one is a real page-turner with many plots twists and just the right amount of action to keep a reader obsessed with finishing the book." —Brandi Peterson, The Aspiring Author BlogEnder's Game meets Percy Jackson in this YA Sci-Fi story!Mankind has been at war with the AI for four-hundred years. The conflict has claimed countless lives, including Wander Locke's family. It stole his grandfather's life while he was a child, stole his parents' lives a mere year ago, but...it never claimed his sister. She went missing after the AI, or Aggressive Intellectuals, invaded Wander's lunar home. Her body never turned up, and Wander's never lost hope that she was still out there somewhere.After Wander and his best friend, Laura Genki, are attacked by an agent of the AI, he's summoned to President Frost's office. She instructs him to retrieve a shield generator stolen by the Oppressed, a group of elusive rebels who fled to New Earth. If he can retrieve it, he'll be allowed to travel the galaxy in search of his sister. He'll become an official explorer.Together with Laura, and his mysterious teacher, Theodore Manning, the three journey to New Earth in search of the Oppressed. They have only a matter of days to recover the shield generator before the Oppressed use it for themselves. If that happens, Wander may never see his sister again...because he might never be able to leave New Earth.The Blue Barricade is a Young Adult Sci-Fi comedy. It's the first in a series known as "The Explorer."

The sequel to the YA Sci-Fi novel, The Blue Barricade, has arrived!It’s been a month since New Earth was attacked by the shadowy organization known as the Oppressed. Despite surviving the ordeal, Wander Locke finds himself on the one planet that was meant to be uninhabitable: Earth. The unknown fate of Red City proves to be the least of Wander's problems. President Frost is still trusting him to retrieve the stolen shield generator, but the Oppressed won't give it up easily.The road to retrieving it is paved with dangerous missions involving the AI, or Aggressive Intellectuals. Between facing the robots who killed his parents, and the rebels keeping him prisoner, Wander finds himself wondering if he can complete his objective. More importantly, he begins to wonder if he even wants to...

Includes 4 young adult sci-fi books! 1,000+ pages of funny, action-packed, and superpowered space adventures. The perfect book if you like killer robots that are also aliens."Kesten Harris is a brilliant author. That is the word that kept coming to my mind as I was reading through his novel The Blue Barricade, brilliant. This one is a real page-turner with many plots twists and just the right amount of action to keep a reader obsessed with finishing the book." —Brandi Peterson, The Aspiring Author BlogWander Locke never cared about the 400-year-old galactic war until it wiped out most of his family. Now he's made it his personal mission to find his missing sister and bring her home. A mission supported by the President of the First Division, who tasks him with a literal mission to retrieve an experimental device from mysterious rebels.What was meant to be a simple mission evolves into a life-changing fight for survival as Wander's life is plagued by questions. Why did the Aggressive Intellectuals target his family? Who are these rebels and why do they know so much? Most importantly, what even is a Hybrid?This box set includes traumatized teenagers, people with glowing eyes, alien invasions, dumb banter, morally gray decisions, robots, planets, a robot planet, and a very important message about family.This set includes all four books in The Explorer series:The Blue Barricade (Book 1)The Gray Raid (Book 2)The Green General (Book 3)The Red Revolution (Book 4)

The third book in the Young Adult Sci-FI series, The Explorer, has arrived!Upon returning to New Selene, Wander Locke is hailed as a celebrity by the First Division. Wander feels unworthy of his new status, due to the events that transpired on Epsilon. His chance at redemption arrives in the form of a mission request from President Frost. She asks him to venture to an unexplored planet and rescue a soldier who was captured by powerful and mysterious robots. Wander embarks with the fallen soldier’s leader, but soon discovers that the mission is far more complicated than it seems. What starts as a simple quest evolves into Wander’s greatest challenge as the line between friends and enemies blurs, and the odds continue to stack against him.

The fourth and Final Explorer book is finally here. Come find out how Wander Locke's journey ends. The Red Revolution is a Young Adult Sci-Fi novel that chronicles the final month of a 400-year-old galactic war.Wander Locke doesn't care how the AI War ends, he just wants to wake up in a galaxy that isn't being torn apart. He's so desperate that he's even enlisted help from the aliens that he hates so much: the Aggressive Intellectuals (AI).After an attack leaves Wander's army without a base, they're stuck onboard the ship that practically started the war in the first place: the Mainframe. That's where they receive news that could help them end the war in a single day. Wander and his friends speed toward their final battle but are they ready for everything that comes before? Especially if the final confrontation takes place in the single most controversial location in the First Division: Red City?

The sequel to the YA Sci-Fi novel, The Blue Barricade, has arrived!It’s been a month since New Earth was attacked by the shadowy organization known as the Oppressed. Despite surviving the ordeal, Wander Locke finds himself on the one planet that was meant to be uninhabitable: Earth. The unknown fate of Red City proves to be the least of Wander's problems. President Frost is still trusting him to retrieve the stolen shield generator, but the Oppressed won't give it up easily.The road to retrieving it is paved with dangerous missions involving the AI, or Aggressive Intellectuals. Between facing the robots who killed his parents, and the rebels keeping him prisoner, Wander finds himself wondering if he can complete his objective. More importantly, he begins to wonder if he even wants to...

Ender's Game meets Percy Jackson in this brand new YA Sci-Fi story!Mankind has been at war with the AI for four-hundred years. The conflict has claimed countless lives, including Wander Locke's family. It stole his grandfather's life while he was a child, stole his parents' lives a mere year ago, but...it never claimed his sister. She went missing after the AI, or Aggressive Intellectuals, invaded Wander's lunar home. Her body never turned up, and Wander's never lost hope that she was still out there somewhere.After Wander and his best friend, Laura Genki, are attacked by an agent of the AI, he's summoned to President Frost's office. She instructs him to retrieve a shield generator stolen by the Oppressed, a group of elusive rebels who fled to New Earth. If he can retrieve it, he'll be allowed to travel the galaxy in search of his sister. He'll become an official explorer.Together with Laura, and his mysterious teacher, Theodore Manning, the three journey to New Earth in search of the Oppressed. They have only a matter of days to recover the shield generator before the Oppressed use it for themselves. If that happens, Wander may never see his sister again...because he might never be able to leave New Earth.The Blue Barricade is a Young Adult Sci-Fi comedy. It's the first in a series known as "The Explorer."

The third book in the Young Adult Sci-FI series, The Explorer, has arrived!Upon returning to New Selene, Wander Locke is hailed as a celebrity by the First Division. Wander feels unworthy of his new status, due to the events that transpired on Epsilon. His chance at redemption arrives in the form of a mission request from President Frost. She asks him to venture to an unexplored planet and rescue a soldier who was captured by powerful and mysterious robots. Wander embarks with the fallen soldier’s leader, but soon discovers that the mission is far more complicated than it seems. What starts as a simple quest evolves into Wander’s greatest challenge as the line between friends and enemies blurs, and the odds continue to stack against him.

The fourth and Final Explorer book is finally here. Come find out how Wander Locke's journey ends. The Red Revolution is a Young Adult Sci-Fi novel that chronicles the final month of a 400-year-old galactic war.Wander Locke doesn't care how the AI War ends, he just wants to wake up in a galaxy that isn't being torn apart. He's so desperate that he's even enlisted help from the aliens that he hates so much: the Aggressive Intellectuals (AI).After an attack leaves Wander's army without a base, they're stuck onboard the ship that practically started the war in the first place: the Mainframe. That's where they receive news that could help them end the war in a single day. Wander and his friends speed toward their final battle but are they ready for everything that comes before? Especially if the final confrontation takes place in the single most controversial location in the First Division: Red City?

This is a hero story, the story of how an unlikely youth became heir to the throne of an equally unlikely kingdom. He has the aid of some human and some non-human friends (but none of them inhumane). It all started with a gloomy princess who had never laughed at anything in her life. Not only that, she made everyone around her gloomy. It was her only joy. But Throckmorton Quattlebottom accidentally makes the Gloomy Princess laugh. And there Throckmorton hangs by the tail.

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