The Acolytes of Crane (Electronic book text)

While an intergalactic war threatens, a boy on earth is beat-down by his wayward dad and built-up by the love of his selfless friends to challenge the galaxy's greatest evil ever. Theodore Crane is a twelve-year-old prankster embracing the eighties and drowning in the disturbing reality of love's neglect. The latency of charisma dulls his life until a mysterious intervention leads him into a labyrinth of despair-fashioned by a star-front war. Just when Theodore thinks he is all alone, he is motivated by the strength of friendship. Theodore will have to face an unlikely nemesis, travel to the furthest reaches of space, and wield a sword one-million years older than him into the cold heart of an unbridled hatred. He will face an elaborate intergalactic realm full of culture and diversity, two Omnians with a hunger to abuse technology, and he will need to dictate fate by guiding worlds from uncertainty. Hate will not bow down to an inkling of hope, but may cower to the devotion of many.