A young-adult science-fiction story of a 15 year-old boy who's wildest dreams come true as he's chosen for a life-changing inner-galactic romp on a mission that is almost beyond human imagination.,For thousands of years, ancient man gazed up into the stars and dreamt of returning to Pleiades. That dream now rests in the hands of Zac Box, a typical 15-year-old high school boy, interested in girls and cars, with dreams of his own to someday attend the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Zac's mother graduated from the Air Force Academy to became a combat pilot. She was killed when her helicopter was shot down during a Pararescue mission in the Middle East. Zac's father, a smoke jumper, spends most summer months away from home fighting forest fires. Zac must spend his summers with his great-grandfather, White Elk, on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in the Four Corners area of Colorado. This summer will prove life-changing for Zac, not because he finds a flying saucer, but because a flying saucer finds him...

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