Stranded in Space

by Bob Doerr

Stranded in Space : Book 4 in The Enchanted Coin Series is a 31,000 word fantasy adventure targeted at Middle Grade readers. Imagine being a fourteen year old again and finding a coin that seems to give off a light of its own. The coin has your name on it, claims to be magical, and instructs you to toss it into a fountain next to the Tree of Life. That's what happens in Stranded in Space, and what starts my protagonist off on a magical adventure that many young boys and girls would love to have.

This book is "G" rated.

Characters

Drake Thompson is a 14-year-old boy, who finds an enchanted coin and is transported onto a damaged spaceship belonging to a race of people known as the Krozans.

Baya is a 14-year-old girl from the planet Shantell who is also sent by a magical coin to the same spaceship at the same time as Drake. She looks like an Earth girl but her skin and hair are blue.

Zane is a Krozan teenager whom Drake and Baya have to bring out of hibernation to help them save the spaceship and the Krozan crew and passengers.

140 pages, Paperback

Published July 16, 2019

About the author

Bob spent nearly thirty years in the Air Force, all of it with the Office of Special Investigations. He then spent eight years as a financial planner before getting serious about his writing. Selected in 2013 by the Military Writers Society of America as its Author of the Year, Bob has fifteen books published. His fifth book in his Jim West mystery series was a winner in the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. His book Another Colorado Kill took silver for fiction in the Stars and Flags Book Awards for 2012. The third book, Loose Ends Kill, was selected as a Finalist for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Award and then was awarded the Silver medal for Fiction/mystery at the Military Writers Society of America's 2011 conference. Cold Winter's Kill was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2010.