PYRA AND THE TEKTITES: SMUGGLERS! by Tyree Campbell

Just as Pyra settles in on Europa to be tutored by Dr. O’Rourke and to study the morrikaru, Ceres Security comes for her.  She escapes with Parker Bailey’s help, steals the security shuttle, and flees from Europa.  Mark the Shark, notorious pirate, captures her and maroons her with the Tektite settlement on the asteroid known as Pirate’s Cay.  She steals her stolen shuttle back, and goes into space with Parker and Chlorine Collingsworth.  With little food, few skills, and limited options, they decide to become smugglers.  Uh-oh…