Space exploration history has been made when NASA’s New Horizons craft hurtled past Pluto and sent back the clearest photos ever seen of everyone’s favourite former planet. New Horizons is expected to relay more photos to NASA by early Thursday morning and if you are as excited about space as we are the wait is grueling. Luckily we have the perfect reading list to help you pass the time!
One minute Jonah was in his living room and the next aboard a spaceship where he meets the strangest looking girl he’s ever seen. He’s been inducted into The Incredible Space Raiders and must join them on their mission to save the world from The Entirely Evil Things before it’s too late.
When his fellow Space Raiders start to disappear it’s up to Jonah to figure out what’s going on if he wants to save his friends and make it out of the Dark Zone alive.
With earth is on the brink of extinction, Christopher is proud that his family is one of the ones sent to live on Perses, and asteroid, to mine for more resources. When a communications blackout causes Perses to lose touch with Earth the colony is ruthlessly attacked.
Christopher knows his parents must be dead. Armed with a map he doesn’t know how to read and very limited resources, his only hope for survival is to lead a small group of survivors deep into the mines and try to reestablish communications with Earth.
Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, is a normal kid until he receives a mysterious letter from M.G. warning him that dangerous events have been set in motion that have the potential to destroy reality itself.
With every choice made and every option presented a new reality is born. Tick must cross space, time, and dimensions in order to save all the tangential realities before it’s too late.
Hailed “a rollercoaster ride into space” by Booklist, Elissa’s life changes forever when she learns she has a telepathic twin sister in the clutches of the government. In order to save Lin, Elissa must evade government operatives and put their lives in the hands of Cadan, her brother’s infuriating best friend who has just graduated from SFI space flight academy.
Lin is too valuable to let escape and Elissa has seen too much. The government will stop at nothing to get them back.
Starglass (The Starglass Sequence #1) by Phoebe North
Terra lives aboard the Asherah, a craft travelling from a doomed Earth to what Terra’s people hope is their salvation. Terra is doing her best to get by with a dead mom, a grieving dad, a betrothed who doesn’t want to give her the time of day, and the lamest vocation assignment ever: botany.
When she witnesses the murder of an innocent man, Terra is pulled into the power struggle between the oppressed aboard Asherah and those who hold the power. The stakes are higher than she can imagine and Terra will have to decide if her allegiance lies with the rebellion, or the boy she’s been sent to assassinate.
