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Mars One
by Jonathan Maberry
Ages: 14+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
ISBN: 978-1-4814-6161-0
Keywords: Space exploration, Diversity, Colonization of Mars, Space travel
Seventeen-year-old Tristan, master mechanical engineer like his mother, joins a mission to colonize Mars and encounters life-threatening problems.