Peter and the Starcatchers

Peter and the Starcatchers is by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. It is Peter Pan. . .before Peter Pan. It's how he became who he was in the movies. The main character, of course, is Peter. It starts out when he and his friends from the orphanage are getting on a boat. On the boat, Peter meets a mysterious girl, Molly Aster. She finally tells him that she is part of a group of people called the Starcatchers. Their job is to collect stuff that falls out of the sky, called starstuff. After they collect it, they send it back up so it doesn't get into the hands of the Others, who want to use the starstuff's power to make them the most powerful beings on the planet, possibly destroy the planet. They send it back up by. . .you have to read that. There are three books in the series: Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. As I said, this is before the Peter Pan movies, before Peter could fly, live forever, etc. What did happen before Peter Pan. . .?