Books with title First Contact

For Boys 10-14In the newly discovered Earth, Ralph, Laura, Jack and their friends are seemingly just ordinary thirteen year olds. But why are some of the most powerful people in the Galaxy so interested in them? How would you react if you started developing super abilities? What would your parents say if Aliens paid you a visit and invited you to go to their elite school? These teens are about to find out. The story is set in the near future and follows a group of seven young teenagers from different countries who, having discovered they have extraordinary powers, find themselves attending a school run by aliens hidden in the Australian Outback.In the early part of the twenty-first century Earth was visited by aliens from the Galactic Confederation. Thirteen years later these aliens reveal that they, and also some humans, have powers which in more primitive societies would be regarded as supernatural. These powers are known as ‘The Ability’. People with the Ability make up the Navigator Guild who are the de facto rulers of the Galaxy.Those rare teenagers with the Ability are chosen to become cadets attending Navigator School, where they are trained to develop and use their skills and finally become fully-fledged Navigators.

Life has always been tough for Eliza Anderson. With a nightmare mother and even worse stepfather, she has practically had to raise her little sister by herself. If trouble at home weren’t enough, she is about to start her final year of school, which means fitting work shifts around studying, as well as having to face her cheating ex. Never one to let life drag her down, Eliza is determined to keep her head down and focus on the future. That makes her the only one in Burnt Oak who isn’t interested in Jack, the super-hot new student. But Jack isn’t so easy to ignore—especially when he keeps appearing at the first sign of trouble. When a life-changing incident forces Jack to reveal the truth he has been hiding, Eliza's life is turned upside down, and she is thrown into a world she had no idea existed. Nothing can prepare her for what comes next. When secrets are unearthed and lies begin to unravel, Eliza begins to question everything she thought she knew.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all... the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who-- or what-- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predict its future-- and our own.