Five...four...three...two...one. Lift-off! 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 space story from award-winning author, Malorie Blackman.

Zoom to Pluto and back with this super space story from award-winning author, Malorie Blackman.

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 sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. 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-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers.

In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.

In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.

Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780552545426
Author Malorie Blackman
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Corgi Pups
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Weight(grams) 53g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 4mm