Neal Shusterman · fiction-series
The Star Shards Chronicles books in order
A science-fiction trilogy about young people with extraordinary powers and a cosmic conflict.
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Publication order
- 1 Scorpion Shards
Book 1 · novel · 1995
Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of The Star Shards Chronicles. Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his…
- 2 Thief of Souls
Book 2 · novel · 1999
A group of monumentally powerful teens must face an ancient, soul-eating foe in this second book of The Star Shards Chronicles. A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers—when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova…
- 3 Shattered Sky
Book 3 · novel · 2002
Inhabitants of a planet taken over by a terrifying power flee their world, planning to conquer a new one, and only five powerful teenagers, possessed by shards of a shattered star, stand between them and Earth.


