When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.

"Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, [this book] is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as ... children reject ... parents for their emotional and moral failures--in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity...

Space cadets Addie, Miya, and prickly Olivia are sent to the planet Rednessis which has been plunged into total darkness, and somehow they must manage to work together to avoid the native reptaliens and solve the problem--especially since they are short a flashlight and a pair of night goggles.

Ten-year-old Adelaide Banks is the new girl at the Space Education and Action School, and for her first mission is to investigate why Planet Polare's ice is melting and putting its alien life forms in danger--but in addition to dangerous aliens and a lethal environment, she also has to contend with her bullying roommate, Valentina, who is also on the assignment.