Space For Children

For Jason, entering the seventh grade is like walking into a dangerous new world. Now that he’s in junior high school, he’s a small fish in a big pond stocked full of ninth-graders. It’s so scary that he won’t even go to the bathroom if there’s a ninth-grader in there - no matter how badly he has to go! But it isn’t all bad. He’s working on a model space station in shop class, and he’s beginning to notice things he never paid attention to before, like body hair - and girls. Especially one girl: The beautiful, hair-flicking cheerleader Debbie Breen.

Written by a popular middle-grade author, this heartfelt and important treatment of anxiety and depression centers on a 10-year-old boy who begins to handle his grief after his mother disappears by creating a fantasy narrative of where she’s gone, with the help of a kindly neighbor who survived separation from her father during World War II.

Our ancestors fled Earth, humanity's survivors absconding on the eve of a nuclear apocalypse. Their only hope of survival hinging on finding more of the ultra-rare element that makes faster-than-light travel possible. A quest that pulls them half a galaxy away. Three hundred years and nine generations later, humans have established themselves in their New Eden.

A near-term princess is betrayed in her battle to conquer the galactic core. Her unborn daughter Serena is taken from her body, raised in a foreign empire, and trained to be a lethal weapon. Twenty years later, multiple attempts are made on her life, but Serena will defy anyone who would use her toward their own ends.

The Safe Haven Reserve was supposed to be a place where the remaining tribes could live in peace. But the new head of the facility has turned it into a concentration camp. When Wynd and his classmates stumble across a band of the planet's displaced natives, Wynd gets ideas on how the tribes can escape the facility.

Humans were forced to leave Earth when the pollution became a threat. Mankind could no longer live on the planet. They traveled 189 light years to their new home they named Horizon. When they left Earth they abandoned much and over the years they grew, developed, and matured. A long time in humanities' future they returned to Earth and found something else living there.

General Mikeal leads an exploratory mission and finds one of Earth's colony ships lost for more than 500 years on the other side of an unknown galaxy. Staff Sergeant Felina Vasquez and her fire team volunteers to accompany on the scouting mission. She can run across the universe, but she can't run away from her mind. Personal demons haunt her. The general and his scouts battle ferocious animals and hostile vegetation as they unwrap a horrific beginning to a new civilization.

Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic travelers who explore space, retrieve lost treasures, and hunt down criminals. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then he meets Wanderblatch, a strange creature with an even stranger object: a golden pyramid that houses a legendary Kobasticker called the Jupiter. When the Jupiter chooses Zero as its next host, he is recruited by a top Saba guild so he can harness his newfound powers.

It all comes down to this. While Marcus is visiting Iaka on Alpha 114, a message arrives from from Marcus’s adopted father, Vlad Valcor. He needs help and Marcus never says no to family. Soon he and Solomon are off to Pleasure Planet 4 and a meeting that will hopefully bring peace between Vlad’s organization and the Jade Dragon clan.

Julia Child's 20' x 14' kitchen was a serious workspace and recipe-testing lab that exuded a sense of mid-century homey comfort. Now, it has been on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, for most of the past twenty years. Between lively narrative and detailed commentary on Julia's favorite kitchen gadgets, Julia Child's Kitchen illuminates the stories behind the room's design, use, significance, and legacy, showing how deeply Julia Child continues to influence food today.

A space adventure from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor Mimic and Higgens have saved the shapeshifting alien race again and hope for nothing more than to settle down and enjoy life. Before that happens, there’s one more battle to fight. Can they turn back the alien horde one more time and find peace? Or are they destined to be ground into dust as so many before them?

We are the last humans. We are hunted. We are refugees. We must return to Earth. The alien scorpions attack us across the galaxy. They butcher millions. Humans are now an endangered species. But we have not given up. We still have a few starships. We still have some hope. And we have a map home. On Earth, we can be free again. On Earth, we can stand tall. On Earth, we can rebuild what we have lost. Earth is but an echo, calling from beyond the darkness. We will answer her call. We will find our lost world. We will defeat our enemies. We will rise again!

Darcie was taking her young child Tristan to rejoin her husband Lujan in the Enach system when nonhuman slavers attacked and captured their transport. Darcie escaped with Tristan in a lifepod and touched down on Ganwold, a primitive planet controlled by their long-time enemy. Unfortunately, due to a malfunction in the lightskip drive, they’d also accidentally jumped several years forward in time and can’t expect to be rescued, so Tristan grows to manhood hiding among the alien ganan.

Oliver trata de adaptarse a su nueva vida en el planeta “Xindi”, pero las cosas no terminan de salirle bien. En el fondo, sabe que algo dentro de él no encaja y está dispuesto a ir lejos, todo lo lejos que haga falta, para conseguir respuestas. Tras lo sucedido en “Oliver Ray y las Luciérnagas del Infinito”, el chico de las estrellas y sus amigos vuelven en esta trepidante aventura, donde viajarán a rincones increíbles de la galaxia y se las tendrán que ver con nuevos y viejos enemigos. Descubre con ellos la magia de las estrellas.

If Stan Pollux had known he would be spending his summer holidays in the outer reaches of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants. But when he gets kidnapped by the Planet Dragon Mercury, most things suddenly seem small and insignificant. Stan finds himself in a universe of dragons who had once ruled the skies as gods.

Everyone’s heard stories about ghost ships. But they’re just stories, right? On the hunt for a missing friend, Marcus and Solomon find a massive black ship in the unexplored regions. Now, they have to find a way to save their trapped friend, and defeat a galaxy-threatening danger. It won’t be easy, but that won’t stop Marcus. He never leaves a friend behind, and this time won’t be any different.

Iaka Kazumi is enjoying her life as a research scientist, at least until her former Earth Force boss calls. Iaka finds herself dragged back into the dangerous world of espionage and running for her life. Marcus Drake and Solomon Keys rush to try and save her before it’s too late. Hunted by black-masked assassins while on the trail of a dangerous techno-cult, Marcus, Solomon, and Iaka crisscross the galaxy in an attempt to save the Earth from a dark fate. An old enemy becomes an ally, and the final battle will leave the Earth changed forever.

The Space Zoo Patrol is an elite team of animals that live and work in a massive space station above the Earth, called the Space Zoo 1. The Space Zoo Patrol is a wildly fun group that solves problems, invents cool technical gizmos, and occasionally saves the Earth by using science. NASA meets MacGyver meets the National Zoo!

Frank loves soccer, codes, riding his bike, and playing with his friends. His brother Max is five. Max only eats foods that are beige or white, hates baths, and if he has to wear a t-shirt that isn't gray with yellow stripes he melts down down down. Max is autistic and Frank longs for the brother he was promised by his parents before Max was born - someone who was supposed to be his biggest fan so he could be the best brother in the world. Instead, Frank has trouble navigating Max's behavior and their relationship.

Page is in unfamiliar territory as the new kid at school. To make matters worse, Shale Pit Academy of Creativity and Excellence (or “SPACE” as it is more commonly known) is no ordinary school. Students there have the dubious distinction of being nicknamed “SPACE cadets.” No, not the astronaut-in-training meaning. Think of the other kind of space cadet—you know, someone who is out of touch with reality. When a bitter prank war erupts with a rival school, Page and her classmates must ask themselves some difficult questions: Are they more than a nickname? Are they more than just SPACE cadets?