Make It So Friday
This isn’t your normal sort of Star Trek novel or novelization. This one is specifically written for teens (or it was written for teens when it was written, now, it may even be an okay book for an older pre-teen to read). Sarek is on Marath to try and broker a peace between factions of the same species from that world. Spock is there too. He makes sorta friends with a kid named Cha. Then he gets to travel on the Enterprise where he meets Pike and Captain April. He also sorta saves the ship. When he is back on Vulcan the strife follows him though, and he has to work through that, as well as working through how he isn’t fully Vulcan or fully Human. Finally, he gets offered the chance to go to Starfleet Academy instead of the Vulcan Science Academy, and, so, he has a hard choice there too. Although, spoiler alert, we know the answer… heh heh…
As I said, it’s not just the slightly easier vocab that marks this as a book written for teens. The number of choices, and the kind of choices that Spock has to make also definitely mark it as a YA book. It was a short book, but there was so much good stuff crammed into those small numbers of pages. It was a really fun read.
You may like this book If you Liked:
Starfleet Academy: Crisis on Vulcan by Brad and Barbara Strickland















