Edwin Peng: 4 books

Emma Smith does her best to ignore all the hoopla about the upcoming Valentine's Day dance, including her friend's persistent attempt to get Emma a hot date. She's focused on what's important: acing chemistry class, and trying to reach her brother, who's serving in the Air Force. Everything...

An alien race, the Ba'ren, makes contact with Earth.... To jumpstart diplomacy with humans, the Ba'ren offer their advanced medical technology, prompting the United States government to create a joint research project, and to call for the best of the best. Eighteen-year-old Emma Smith...

After decades of interstellar travel, the Ba'ren Exploratory Mission finally arrives at Earth's solar system. Unlike most of his fellow Ba'ren, juvenile Sepporinen is not eager to learn more about humans. He prefers to work on his apprenticeship in the asteroid mining guild. When tasked to...

Ngizzida, a Ba'ren biologist, is eager to help the humans cure osteosarcoma, but first she needs her star student, Sahanish, to accompany her to Earth. Many juvenile biologists are eager to meet humans and discover new life forms, however, and Ngizzida must convince a clique of Ba'ren leaders that...