For Sam Gildersleeve life on the boarding school planet was, without a doubt, the biggest source of his problems in his first thirteen years of existence. Then, on Sam's way back home to Earth for his winter break, everything changed. Unexpectedly, his ship came violently out of infinitspace and crash landed on an uncharted planet. It would stand to reason that Sam Gildersleeve, and just about any other thirteen year old, would have died in the most horrible of horribleness that horrible day. But he lived. Sam and his classmates suddenly found themselves stranded in a remarkable world where...