The Altar of Shulaani Series by Margaret Pearce

When ordinary teenager Mike is swept away from Earth and stranded on a strange planet, he discovers he may be the only hope for a world teetering on the edge of destruction. Alongside the fiercely intelligent Alinea and a lovable alien creature named Beeper, Mike becomes entangled in a fight against dark powers who seek to control ancient technology and wield unimaginable forces. From escaping ruthless slave traders to unlocking the mysteries of a long-lost altar, Mike’s journey across the stars is one of courage, friendship, and self-discovery.

But can an Earth-born boy rise to meet the destiny the stars have chosen for him?

An epic sci-fi fantasy adventure in three parts—filled with telepathic gifts, alien cultures, and a battle for survival on a distant world.

 

Book 1: Altar of Shulaani

Mike has a talent for falling into trouble. This time, he has fallen through time itself.

When a beam of noon sunlight focuses on an ancient altar during his father’s desert expedition, Mike leans in just a little too far. One moment he is part of an archaeological dig between Egypt and Libya. The next, he is thousands of years in the past, in a lost civilisation ravaged by plague, with chanting priests on one side and a jungle full of silence on the other.

Then he rescues a girl from the altar knife. Alinea is not from Earth. She is an alien, her parents dying in suspended animation aboard a hidden spaceship, and she needs Mike’s help to reach them before it is too late. Between them and any hope of survival stand the Kloog: scaled predators with blazing red eyes and sharp curved claws, who arrived following a comet and have no interest in leaving peacefully.

With only his wits, a telepathic bond with Alinea, and a scaly beast named Beeper who eats trees and deflects weapons with his scales, Mike must find his way through jungles, ancient temples, and impossible odds to reach the one door home, if it ever opens again.

 

 

Genre: Mid-Grade Reader Science Fiction

ISBN: 9781921314346

ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798215028612

ASIN: B00440DSDI

 

Book 2: The Cave of Dreaming

A flash flood. A hidden cave. Ancient paintings that glow with impossible blue light.

When a flash flood traps Mike and Alinea in a hidden cave in Central Australia, their extraordinary scaled pet Beeper triggers an ancient dimension gate, and all three are hurled across time and space to a world with two moons, dense prehistoric jungles, and dangers beyond imagination.

Now they’re stranded on an alien planet where pterodactyls swoop from the jungle canopy, water dinosaurs lurk in the bays, and the deadliest threat of all is closing in: the Kloog, outer-space cannibals who land on planets and eat through every living thing until nothing remains.

The Galactic Federation wants to lock them in suspended animation until someone claims them, possibly for thousands of years. The only way home lies through time gates the Federation is sealing one by one.

With enemies circling from every direction, Mike and Alinea must rely on their wits, each other, and one very unusual creature to survive.

The clock is ticking. The gates are closing. And in this corner of the galaxy, survival is anything but guaranteed.

 

Genre: Mid-Grade Reader Science Fiction

ISBN: 9781921314476

ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798215337530

ASIN: B003Z0CXAC

 

Book 3: The Secret of the Kloog

When Dad fails to come back from a solo trip to a remote island ruin, Mike and his friend Alinea go to find him. They find his notebook, his untouched sandwiches, and his shovel in a stone hut. They do not find Dad.

What they find instead is a stone platform that shouldn’t be there, and a warm pulse under their feet that sends them tumbling out of their world entirely.

Somewhere out in the galaxy, Dad is in a Federation ship bound for the Intergalactic Lost Property office, fifty years away. To reach him, Mike and Alinea must outwit alien computers, navigate moss-breathing ships, and keep one step ahead of the galaxy’s deadliest predators.

And then there is Quok: the small, green, mossy creature who speaks every language in the galaxy, hitches rides on any ship he can find, and calls himself almost a tree. He’s helping them. Mostly.

 

Genre: Mid-Grade Reader Science Fiction

ISBN: 9781921314650

ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798215276297

ASIN: B003ZYEV3U

Word Count: 29, 317