Alan Wen

In a quiet American town, fourteen-year-old Eli Song carries a name everyone whispers about: he is the son of a disgraced scientist. At the school science fair, his probability project fails in an impossible way. Every coin lands heads, and the results are timestamped before they happen, yet a sloppy project wins instead. Eli realizes something has begun. Not an invasion of spaceships, but the quiet unraveling of fairness and cause itself. A faint broken-halo mark on his wrist starts to glow, and a silver-blue crystal called Star Salt reacts to his every choice.
His town is caught between two forces: the chaos-feeding Phase, and the cold, order-obsessed Superbody that promises salvation by erasing human imperfection. Both want the world rewritten. With his friends Maya, Lucian, Jonah, and Nia, Eli must find a third path before the rules of reality break for good. Redemption Age is a smart, fast, deeply human science-fiction adventure built on one fierce idea: fairness is a habit, not a law.
For readers 12 and up who love big questions, real stakes, and heroes who choose kindness, truth, and courage when it would be easier not to.