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Space Traders Unlimited

Julia Riding (1987)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
SettingFar-Future Space
CSM age11
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Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Not yet tagged

Positive tags

Found FamilyHopeful Ending

Tropes

Space OperaColony WorldSpace StationReluctant HeroFound FamilySmugglersHostile Planet

Themes

Class StruggleComing of AgeIdentityPowerSurvival

Synopsis

Eking out a desperate existence as a renegade with the other Portkids who hide in the old tunnels under a spaceport on Mars, the teenager known as Streak stumbles on clues to the sabotage plaguing the entire solar system.

Tags

mystery SFjuvenile SFplanetary adventurestreet kids SF

Is Space Traders Unlimited appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 11 and up.

A fast-paced space adventure featuring a resourceful teenage runaway on Mars who uncovers a solar-system-wide conspiracy; no sexual content, language, or graphic violence based on the synopsis.

What to know going in

This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language.

Who'll love this

A scrappy Mars street kid races to crack a mystery that could save the whole solar system.