Chronicles of the Wandering Star

In these stories, written as part of a middle school science curriculum, a multi-generation alien spaceship named The Wandering Star is stranded on Earth by a foldspace accident. The main characters are four young aliens from very different species. In the process of repairing the ship, they learn about the planet and its inhabitants as well as about fundamentals of physical science. The stories are meant to entertain, but also to explore scientific reasoning and physical phenomena including force and motion, light and color, conservation of mass and energy, small particle theory of matter, and molecular chemistry.