Anya is pissed when her family moves from earth to the Space Station Convergence. Everything is strange from the food (soy paste in all its colors and forms) to the frequently changing gravity conditions at her new high school. Anya soon uncovers a plot to take over the central computer’s core processor. While this might not bother your typical geek, Anya is anything but your typical geek. She has discovered that the central computer is self-aware, and that computer is Anya’s first friend on the Convergence. Anya will do anything to protect her computer friend, Isis, even if it means breaking into Central Computing and telling her other new (human) friends about Isis.
On a recent trip out of the country I loaded Convergence onto my son's Kindle for in-between moments when he'd had enough sight seeing, laughing at his dad's fake accents, and eating delicious food. It seemed like such a good idea, until he started reading Karen T. Smith's Convergence, which he didn't want to stop reading no matter how interesting the world around him. Thankfully we were able to find additional downtime for him to finish it. When I asked what he loved so much about it he was without words (rare), and replied in this way, "That was AMAZING! I loved the characters, the story, EVERYTHING." He's already asked a dozen times when the next book in the series will come out.