Stephanie and her parents have moved to the planet Sphinx in the Manticore Kingdom. And she feels trapped. Their house is in the middle of nowhere and the other young people in town are not for her.
Dr. Richard Harrington is a xeno-veterinarian, specializing in animals local to the planet. Dr. Marjorie Harrington is a botanic geneticist and biologist. They are both very busy and Stephanie is not to go exploring in the wild without one of them. There are hexapumas afterall!
In her boredom, Stephanie notices a mystery. Someone is stealing the celery out many gardens around the settlements. The instances are too far apart to be a prank, but infrared cameras have not spotted anything. Stephanie is going to catch a celery thief - she is sure it is some native animal.
Climbs Quickly is a scout for his clan of treecats. Treecats, like most mammals native to Sphinx, have six legs: two true hands, hand-feet and feet. They are a sentient race who communicate through telepathy.
Weber has created this wonderful backstory, his first books for young adults. It is a treat seeing where the first human and the treecat met.
Weber, David. (2011). A Beautiful Friendship. New York: Baen.
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