Primed to become Viridis’s future leader, the young Octavia Wuen must prove she is up to the task by winning the planet’s biggest event—the Quaturs Games.

She aligns with others like herself, who have the gift of superpowers, but these new alliances are tested when the Games take a bad turn and the arrival of hostile beings threatens the planet’s survival.

About the Author

Vivian Teo worked as a financial journalist and editor for fourteen years at major US and UK trade publications. She became a freelance writer to spend more time with her two daughters and write about things close to her heart. This led to My BFF is an Alien, her first middle-grade series. She enjoys writing on parenting and education issues for parenting and blogging on her parenting and lifestyle website, The Stuff Childhoods Are Made Of, at www.vivianteo.com.

Vivian is an alumnus of the University of Melbourne and Methodist Girls’ School. Like Abri, she started off quite friendless and unathletic in secondary school but graduated with a tribe of good friends, and fond memories of performing Chinese dance and cheerleading. However, she doesn’t miss homework and exams