Space Race (Corgi Pups) - Softcover

Blackman, Malorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552545422 ISBN 13: 9780552545426

Publisher: Corgi, 1997

Synopsis

What can Lizzie do when big-headed Jake challenges her to a race in space? She's got to beat him. But Jake has a super-duper, deluxe new spaceship that runs on special fuel. . . Zoom to Pluto and back with this super pace story from award-winning author, Malorie Blackman.

About this title

About the Author:

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses series have won several awards, including the Red House Children's Book Award. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award—Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice—while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers including Cloud Busting, which won the Smarties Silver Award, The Monster Crisp Guzzler and Whizziwig. Colin Mier is the illustrator of The Amazing Adventures of Raincoat Man, Go Fox, and Jumping Jack.

Review:

"Rewarding reading" * Teaching and Learning * "The pace is good, there is enough repetition of plot elements to keep readers in touch, and the setting is just different enough to be interesting" * The School Librarian *

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0552545422
• ISBN 13: 9780552545426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Mier Colin