The D'war'en Heir - Tales of the Antares Rangers, #2

Book Two of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series ... In what felt like a lifetime ago, young Peter Campbell and his school-age friends survived a surprise attack by the evil Wasatti Empire, barely escaping on the developing living starship, the Sampson K. Perry. Lost hundreds of light years from the Human Colonies, they need to find their way back, but their forty-day supply of food will barely get them started on their 500-year journey home.
Beating the odds against them, they discover an uncharted planet harboring life. Not only do they find a planet filled with food, but they also encounter a feudal civilization ruled by stern and suspicious Signar, the D'war'en Lord. To get the supplies the crew needs to survive, they will need to convince the leader's son to begin trade with a race of beings the natives never presumed could exist, in a world the D'war'en previously thought of as their own.
At every turn, the D'war'en reveal strange mysteries, but could it be that their planet holds the strangest puzzle of all?