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Galaxy Games: The Challengers
Galaxy Games: The Challengers is a speculative fiction novel for middle-grade readers written by Greg R. Fishbone. The book was published in September, 2011, by Tu Books, a division of Lee and Low Books.

Plot
Galaxy Games: The Challengers opens on the city of Platte Buff, Nevada, where Tyler Sato is celebrating his eleventh birthday. For his birthday, Tyler receives a star naming certificate from his cousin Daiki Shindo, who lives in Japan. When Tyler takes the certificate to his father, who works in an observatory. They search for the star using the observatory's telescope, and find not a star, but a mysterious celestial object hurtling towards the Earth, which they name TY SATO. As the media gets a hold of the mystery object headed towards earth, TY SATO is said all over the planet, the name of the doomsday asteroid that will destroy all life on the planet.

Instead of an asteroid, TY SATO turns out to be a spaceship from the planet Mrendaria, sent on a diplomatic mission to find a replacement team for Mrendaria's spot in the intergalactic Galaxy Games. The ship's captain, M'Frozza, chooses Tyler Sato as the new captain of Mrendaria's Galaxy Games team. It's Tyler's duty to put together a team composed of the best young athletes from Earth to compete in the Galaxy Games, to save Mrendaria from humiliation, and to earn Earth a spot in galactic civilization.

The plot is conveyed from the dual viewpoints of Tyler, in Nevada, and Daiki, in Japan. Excerpts of M'Frozza's trip to planet Earth are interspersed between.