Softwire

Johnny Turnbull, his little sister Ketheria, and fellow knudniks encounter wormhole pirates who deliver a cryptic threat to Johnny, but things get worse when his friend Max begins avoiding him and his sister becomes ill.

After being orphaned on the seed ship "Renaissance", thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on the Rings of Orbis, where Johnny learns he is the first human Softwire, with a gift to enter any computer via his mind.