Outward Bound

Outward Bound by Heinlein,Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780739468913.

Have Spacesuit-Will Travel: Kip, a high school senior, wants to go to the Moon-badly. Now that he owns an obsolete space suit, he gets his chance...thanks to a race of highly advanced aliens who see humans as a source of protein. Starship Troopers (Hugo winner): In a future where you either enlist in the military or forfeit full citizenship, 18-year-old Johnnie Rico survives the toughest boot camp in the Universe...to be sent into battle against mankinds most terrifying enemy. Podkayne of Mars: To further her goal of becoming the first female starship captain, Podkayne Fries travels to Earth with her Uncle Tom, unaware hes the ambassador of an interplanetary conference-whose vote certain parties will stop at nothing to control.