#10: Monica Tesler, The Heroes Return (Bounders #4)

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With this installment, the author discards the Training Planet of the Month format that was followed for the first three volumes and puts the young heroes in charge of the fate of the universe. Jasper returns from the Rift to discover that a year has passed, and all the Bounders have been promoted to the upper ranks of Earth Force... all the ones that stayed, that is. Many were so distraught by Jasper's sacrifice and the pro-war propaganda that followed that they joined the Resistance instead. Jasper's team is split: Cole and Lucy are high ranking Earth Force officers, while Marco and Addy are captains of the Resistance. As for Mira, she agreed to join the alien Youli in exchange for freeing Jasper and the other lost aeronauts from the Rift. It's up to Jasper to navigate his sudden celebrity and determine where his loyalties lie in time to prevent more bloodshed.