Ice: A teen spacer battles isolation and pirates

Ice.

When melted into water, all life depends on it. Everyone needs this highly valued compound, and some are willing to do anything to get it.

Sixteen-year-old Mark Olson is an engineering apprentice on his family's Rover ship, Start Over. Together, they live in the asteroid belt and search for ice—a precious resource that means survival, and profit, for anyone who can acquire it. When a giant piece of the family's last haul breaks off, Mark volunteers to camp out on the frozen chunk of come...