Me Ma Supial!

"Full of danger, intrigue and drama, but not without a sly humour and even a touch of romance. With quirky engaging characters and an intelligent, non-stop plot, Me Ma Supial has the power to draw you in and hold you firmly in its grip until the final page. Highly recommended." .. - Michael Gerard Bauer - Kynn Wheeler is a teenager caught between two worlds. Far behind her - a barely remembered planet.
Close around her - The Wheelerites: her father's extremely religious band of pioneer settlers. And nearby live the aliens. The "Supials":To Kynn they are people, but according to Pastor Wheeler they have no souls. Kynn sets out to prove him wrong but soon runs foul of his extremist methods. Punished almost to death, she is unexpectedly saved by Mica: a kindly Supial boy with a giant crush on her! Despite the gulf between their species, they form a bond of love that sees them through multiple dangers, but will her faith finally prove worthless, so many trillions of miles from Earth? ADVISORY: "Me Ma Supial" is not a light-hearted children's book.
It contains adult themes of cultural conflict, abusive parenting and extremist religious beliefs. Some characters die during an inter-species war.  (There are no overt sexuality, but there is Love. Lots of it!)