Space Boy (series), by Stephen McCrane

Have you ever moved do a different city or state? Where you had to leave your friends and everything about life as you knew it behind? Where, suddenly, you were the New Kid among people who had grown up together? Was it awkward? I'm guessing it was. That's how it is for Amy, the main character in Stephen McCrane's awesome graphic novel series Space Boy. Except Amy's situation is a little more hardcore than a move from, say...Michigan to Ohio (just for example). Amy was forced to move when her dad got a new job, but she didn't just move to a new town. She moved to a new time!

Amy grew up on a mining colony in Deep Space, a 30 year journey away from Earth. But then her dad lost his job and her family had to move back to their home planet, a place Amy had never set foot on. When she woke, she hadn't aged a day (although her best friends back home were now adults with teenage children of their own). Having missed 30 years of, well, everything, it's easy to say that Amy has a lot of catching up to do. Imagine that adjustment! Space Boy is Amy's story of adjusting to life on a strange planet after having traveled 30 years into the future. Oh yeah...and there's a mysterious boy named Oliver Amy just can't stay away from...even if her friends warn her he's dangerous.

I won't say too much more about Space Boy except that it's an awesome series that's definitely worth reading! Find it in our Graphic Novel section today!

--AJB