The Cosmic Alliance

Space Runners #3

by Jeramey Kraatz

Star Wars meets Ridley Pearson’s Kingdom Keepers in this high-stakes intergalactic adventure!

The Cosmic Alliance is the third installment in an action-packed series for tweens that’s perfect for fans of Eoin Colfer and Lisa McMann and that Soman Chainani called “a blockbuster mix of thrills and adrenaline.”

Benny Love’s trip to the moon wasn’t supposed to include the start of a war between humans and the Alpha Maraudi, a group of aliens determined to take over Earth.

When Benny and his friends get to know a peaceful Alpha Maraudi general and her crew, Benny can’t imagine letting the war continue—he’ll need to help bring the conflict to a peaceful resolution.

But neither group’s leaders are interested in talking, and Benny knows that both sides are developing powerful superweapons. Will the Moon Platoon be able to save both their Earth families and their new alien friends?

Genres: Science Fiction, Space

357 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 13, 2018

About the author

Hi! I’m Jeramey Kraatz. That’s like “cats” with an “R” in it, by the way. I wrote THE CLOAK SOCIETY and SPACE RUNNERS series from Harper.

I grew up in Odessa, Texas, studied advertising and English at TCU, and graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University where I studied nonfiction writing. In the past, I’ve worked as a snow-cone maker, barista, mannequin dresser, and intern in the X-Men Editorial Department at Marvel Comics. When I’m not working on books, I write English dub scripts for various anime series, like Seraph of the End and My Hero Academia. You never have to grow up, kids.

I like bad horror movies, comic books, queso, and music that sounds like laser pistols. I live and work in Texas with, predictably, my cat: Loki.

Reviews

[Joey]

Also really good, full of problematic dilemmas between a dying world and Earth.

[Mary Catelli]

Book 3 of Space Runners. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

For instance, it opens with our heroes ensconced on Alpha Maraudi ships. Thus raising suspicious of their being hostages.

It involves testing what Benny can do with the glove; a child Alpha Maraudi who doesn't want to study when he can study humans in the flesh; failed negotiations; breaking in a server; supplies of soda and other food; questions of whether both races can survive; Tull's backstory; and more.

[Anita]

Benny manages to convince a new Alpha Maraudi commander that humans are just like them.

It doesn't hurt that she's got a little kiddo she's caring for on her invasion ship and carries around his ball in her tentacles.

I won't spoil the ending, but you already know there's a fourth book, so I can tell you, the Alpha Mauradi still have a Commander deep in space, bent on annihilating the human race...

Awesome summer reading! There's a 4th in the series, which we have on hold at our public library.

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[Yapha]

Excellent continuation of the series! I'm looking forward to book four. Highly recommended for science fiction fans, grades 4 & up.

[Nathan McRae]

awesome but I don't like that cliffhanger